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Hilltop Cottage Cowshill Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1DF

3/2008/0591Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 November 2008

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Install wind turbine on 6.5 metre mast with concrete base and winch anchor base

Received
15 September 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated16 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided10 Nov

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Hilltop Cottage Cowshill Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1DF. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There have been 2 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 1DF
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 September 2008
Consultation expiry
13 October 2008
Consultation start
22 September 2008
Target decision date
10 November 2008
Committee meeting
10 November 2008
Permission expires
10 November 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Steven Armstrong Hilltop Cottage Cowshill Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1DF

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 September 2008
Advertisement expiry
13 October 2008
Site notice start
22 September 2008
Site notice end
13 October 2008

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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, 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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