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Wolsingham Steelworks Site Durham Road Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3HZ

3/2006/0084Outline ApplicationWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 6 November 2006

Council decision: Application WithdrawnPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Mixed use regeneration, including residential, industrial and open space uses

Received
31 January 2006
Decision level
Planning committee
Agent
Entec UK Limited
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 May
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 252 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Wolsingham Steelworks Site Durham Road Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3HZ. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 279 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.

89% of outline 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 3HZ
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2006
Consultation expiry
6 April 2006
Consultation start
16 March 2006
Target decision date
28 May 2006
Permission expires
6 November 2006

Applicant and agent

Agent
Entec UK Limited
Agent address
Luke McDonald Northumbria House Regent Centre Gosforth Newcastle Upon Tyne NE3 3PX

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 March 2006
Advertisement expiry
6 April 2006
Site notice start
17 March 2006
Site notice end
6 April 2006

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Brownfield land register: Durham Road, DL13 3HZRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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