16 Laburnum Avenue Blackhill County Durham Dh8 5tb
Approved on 8 July 2008
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conservation area consent to demolish existing garage and outbuilding and erection of replacement garage
- Received
- 22 April 2008
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Consett North
- Agent
- Unit Design & Developments Ltd
- ReceivedReceived22 Apr
- ValidatedValidated21 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date15 Jul
- DecidedDecided8 Jul
Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 16 Laburnum Avenue Blackhill County Durham Dh8 5tb. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Blackhill conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 10 applications across Consett North. We hold 1,314 applications in total for the DH8 postcode area.
95% of full applications at Durham County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DH8 5TB
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 May 2008
- Consultation start
- 2 June 2008
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 June 2008
- Target decision date
- 15 July 2008
- Committee meeting
- 2 July 2008
- Decision issued
- 11 July 2008
- Permission expires
- 8 July 2011
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Unit Design & Developments Ltd
- Agent address
- Unit Design & Developments Ltd Mr R Dodds 285a Durham Road Consett Co Durham Dh8 5nw
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 2 June 2008
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Blackhill
- 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 (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, 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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