St Mary And St Stephens Church Church Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3AJ
Approved on 19 February 2007
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Erection of a steel fence and gate to enclose steps to boiler house
- Received
- 18 December 2006
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- ReceivedReceived18 Dec
- ValidatedValidated4 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date28 Feb
- DecidedDecided19 Feb
Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at St Mary And St Stephens Church Church Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3AJ. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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 3AJ
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 January 2007
- Consultation expiry
- 2 February 2007
- Consultation start
- 12 January 2007
- Target decision date
- 28 February 2007
- Committee meeting
- 26 February 2007
- Decision issued
- 20 February 2007
- Permission expires
- 18 February 2010
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr F Shepheard 25 Front Street Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3DF
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 12 January 2007
- Advertisement expiry
- 2 February 2007
- Site notice start
- 12 January 2007
- Site notice end
- 2 February 2007
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Wolsingham
- Listed building: Grade II: Thompson Tomb Circa 8 Metres West of Church of St Mary and St StephenOn or next to this 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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, 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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201111 Oct
Extension of existing cemetery involving the change of use of land from open pasture to cemetery
ApprovedPre-Application Outline Enquiries3/OE/2011/0002 - 201128 Feb
Pruning works
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation Area3/TC/2011/0007 - 201030 Nov
Fell one cherry tree
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation Area3/TC/2010/0037
Source: Durham
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