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High Farm Front Street Great Lumley Chester-le-Street Durham DH3 4JE

2/09/00031/CLUCertificate of Lawful Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 24 March 2009

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use: for the use of land as a residential garden.

Received
3 February 2009
  1. Received3 Feb
  2. Validated23 Mar
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target18 May
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 1 day (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at High Farm Front Street Great Lumley Chester-le-Street Durham DH3 4JE. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 670 applications in total for the DH3 postcode area.

96% of amendment 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
DH3 4JE
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Lumley

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 March 2009
Consultation expiry
27 February 2009
Consultation start
6 February 2009
Consultation end
27 February 2009
Neighbour consultation start
6 February 2009
Neighbour consultation end
27 February 2009
Last date for comments
27 February 2009
Target decision date
18 May 2009
Decision issued
30 June 2009
Permission expires
30 June 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: County DurhamPart of the site
  • 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2017
    8 May

    Discharge of condition 7 of planning permission 2/08/00236/FUL

    WithdrawnDischarge of conditionsDRC/17/00189
  2. 2010
    11 Nov

    Section 73 application to vary condition 2 of planning approval 08/00392/FUL

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)2/10/00295/VAR
  3. 2008
    29 Sep

    Erection of two storey dwelling (revision of previously approved scheme 08/00236/FUL

    ApprovedPlanning Application2/08/00392/FUL
  4. 2008
    9 Jun

    Demolition of existing farm house and outbuildings. Construction of 4 no detached houses with vehicular access

    ApprovedPlanning Application2/08/00236/FUL
  5. 2006
    11 Sep

    Outline application to demolish existing farm house and associated outbuilding and construction of 2 no…

    ApprovedOutline Application2/06/00432/OUT
  6. 2006
    11 Mar

    Erection of 2 no dwellings and new access. (Outline).

    WithdrawnOutline Application2/06/00099/OUT

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