Dolphin Centre Central Hall Horsemarket Darlington DL1 5RP
Approved on 16 December 2025
Council decision: GRANTED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Listed Building Consent for the replacement of 6 no. windows on the west elevation and internal alterations within the Central Hall building for the provision of a 9-hole Crazy Golf leisure facility, including removal of partition walls, ceiling and floor finishes, new structural internal openings together with associated fit-out works
- Received
- 30 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Darlington Borough Council
- Ward
- Park East
- ReceivedReceived30 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Oct
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date23 Nov
- DecidedDecided16 Dec
Decided in 75 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a heritage application for window replacement at Dolphin Centre Central Hall Horsemarket Darlington DL1 5RP. Darlington has handled 47 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 5 weeks longer than Darlington's typical decision time. The site is in the Darlington Town Centre conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Park East. We hold 333 applications in total for the DL1 postcode area.
95% of all 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 5RP
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent DBC
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Darlington Urban Area
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 7 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 23 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Napper Architects 3 Waterloo Square Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4DR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 17 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 6 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 27 November 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 78
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Darlington Town Centre
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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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Source: Darlington
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