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Victoria Cottage 19 Meadhope Street Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3EN

3/2011/0353Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 28 October 2011

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing ground floor kitchen and first floor bathroom. Construction of extension comprising ground floor kitchen and living area and first floor bedroom

Received
2 September 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received2 Sep
  2. Validated3 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Oct
  5. Decided28 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Victoria Cottage 19 Meadhope Street Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3EN. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3EN
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 September 2011
Consultation expiry
29 September 2011
Target decision date
28 October 2011
Committee meeting
24 October 2011
Permission expires
27 October 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Vere Shuttleworth Victoria House 22 Angate Street Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3EW

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 September 2011
Advertisement expiry
29 September 2011

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Wolsingham
  • 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, 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.

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