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Nursery Time 117 Commercial Street Willington Crook County Durham DL15 0AA

3/2010/0540Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 22 February 2011

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of highway verge/open space at rear to private garden for childrens nursery including erection of new boundary fence

Received
6 December 2010
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Agent
Gary Craig Building Services Limited
  1. Received6 Dec
  2. Validated7 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target31 Jan
  5. Decided22 Feb

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Nursery Time 117 Commercial Street Willington Crook County Durham DL15 0AA. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. 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 0AA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 December 2010
Target decision date
31 January 2011
Committee meeting
28 February 2011
Decision issued
2 March 2011
Permission expires
21 February 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gary Craig Building Services Limited
Agent address
Mr Gary Craig 10 Fulmar Walk Whitburn Tyne And Wear SR6 7BW

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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.

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