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The Cottage 18 Hill Top Esh County Durham Dh7 9rl

1/2011/0225/81090Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 2 August 2011

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use of property to include business premises (office room within existing property). Proposed portal frame building within existing garden and associated hardstanding area

Received
11 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Esh and Witton Gilbert
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Jul
  5. Decided2 Aug

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Cottage 18 Hill Top Esh County Durham Dh7 9rl. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,247 applications in total for the DH7 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
DH7 9RL
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Esh

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2011
Target decision date
10 July 2011
Committee meeting
20 June 2011
Permission expires
1 August 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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