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Harperley POW Camp (Craigside) Durham Road Harperley Bishop Auckland DL15 8DX

3/2003/0125Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 July 2003

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

Proposal

Heritage business attractions, holiday accommodation, garden centre, nursery, tearoom and extension, farm shop, managers dwelling and annex, car park, caravan and campsite, demolition of craigside

Received
21 February 2003
Ward
Weardale
Agent
The Smith Planning Consultancy
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 134 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Harperley POW Camp (Craigside) Durham Road Harperley Bishop Auckland DL15 8DX. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 13 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 698 applications in total for the DL15 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
DL15 8DX
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2003
Consultation expiry
19 March 2003
Target decision date
29 April 2003
Committee meeting
10 April 2003
Decision issued
21 July 2003
Permission expires
15 July 2008

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Smith Planning Consultancy
Agent address
Mike Smith 29 Robson Drive Hexham Northumberland NE46 2HZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 March 2003
Site notice end
19 March 2003

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© 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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