Crag Cottage (n.k.a. High Puddingthorne Cottage) Lanehead Bishop Auckland DL13 1AW
Approved on 4 March 2009
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Conversion of redundant buildings to holiday accommodation (part-retrospective)
- Received
- 16 October 2008
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- Agent
- Nicola Allan Associates
- ReceivedReceived16 Oct
- ValidatedValidated2 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date26 Jan
- DecidedDecided4 Mar
Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Crag Cottage (n.k.a. High Puddingthorne Cottage) Lanehead Bishop Auckland DL13 1AW. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,945 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 1AW
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stanhope
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 December 2008
- Consultation expiry
- 23 December 2008
- Consultation start
- 3 December 2008
- Target decision date
- 26 January 2009
- Committee meeting
- 26 January 2009
- Decision issued
- 5 March 2009
- Permission expires
- 3 March 2012
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Nicola Allan Associates
- Agent address
- Nicola Allan Dilston House Cottage Corbridge Northumberland
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 2 December 2008
- Site notice end
- 23 December 2008
Additional information
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20106 Sep
Discharge condition 6 (surface treatment and layout) and 8 (window details) pursuant to planning permission…
ApprovedDischarge of conditions3/DC/2010/0071 - 20103 Mar
Conversion of redundant building to holiday accommodation (part retrospective)
ApprovedFull Planning Application3/2010/0082 - 200628 Jul
Extension to approved holiday accommodation
ApprovedFull Planning Application3/2006/0662 - 20042 Aug
Conversion to holiday accommodation
ApprovedFull Planning Application3/2004/0647
Source: Durham
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