Car Park At The Entrance To Gibside Busty Bank Burnopfield

1/2011/0610/83547Full Planning ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved on 8 March 2012

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Restoration of walled garden at gibside estate and provision of alternative parking areas at west wood and warren haugh, including visitor reception building, and improvements to pedestrian access inc. Minor surfacing changes in chapel car park to accommodate bus and coach access

Received: 25 November 2011
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Durham County Council
Ward: Burnopfield and Dipton

ReceivedReceived25 Nov
ValidatedValidated7 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date31 Jan
DecidedDecided8 Mar

Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Car Park At The Entrance To Gibside Busty Bank Burnopfield. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 7 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address.

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

Application type: Full Planning Application
Scale / size: Small
Parish: No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated: 7 December 2011
Target decision date: 31 January 2012
Committee meeting: 18 January 2012
Decision issued: 9 March 2012
Permission expires: 8 March 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 16 December 2011

Additional information

Documents: 19

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Conservation area: Gibside CA
Green belt: Gateshead
Registered park and garden: Gibside
Ancient woodland: Snipes Dene
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 (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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