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The Byre House (Business Name - Eco It) Copthill Farm High Copthill Cowshill Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1AB

3/2001/0390Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 18 April 2002

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use and extension of former agricultural buildings to business and residential use and associated works

Received
31 July 2001
  1. Received31 Jul
  2. Validated31 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Sep
  5. Decided18 Apr

Decided in 261 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Byre House (Business Name - Eco It) Copthill Farm High Copthill Cowshill Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1AB. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 261 days, 29 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Cowshill conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the DL13 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
DL13 1AB
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 July 2001
Consultation expiry
10 August 2001
Target decision date
25 September 2001
Committee meeting
24 September 2001
Decision issued
23 April 2002
Permission expires
17 April 2007

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 August 2001
Site notice end
10 August 2001

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Cowshill
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
  • 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 (20)

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

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    31 Jul

    Change of use and extension of former agricultural buildings to business and residential use and associated…

    This applicationApprovedFull3/2001/0390

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