82 High Northgate Darlington DL1 1UW
Approved on 18 November 2025
Council decision: GRANTED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use from hot food takeaway to a drink and food bar at ground floor level and from storage to bar in basement (Sui Generis).
- Received
- 29 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Darlington Borough Council
- Ward
- Northgate
- ReceivedReceived29 Sep
- ValidatedValidated3 Oct
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date24 Nov
- DecidedDecided18 Nov
Decided in 46 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 82 High Northgate Darlington DL1 1UW. Darlington has handled 38 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 8 days longer than Darlington's typical decision time. The site is in the Stockton & Darlington Railway: Northgate conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Northgate. We hold 333 applications in total for the DL1 postcode area.
100% of amendment applications at Darlington Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DL1 1UW
- Application type
- Change Of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Darlington Urban Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 10 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 7 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 7 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 10 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 24 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 18 November 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 17 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 20 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 10 November 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 28
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Next to the site
- Conservation area: Stockton & Darlington Railway: Northgate
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Source: Darlington
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