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Old Station House Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3BL

3/2012/0244Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 November 2012

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of new building for commercial use

Received
14 June 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Aug
  5. Decided8 Nov

Decided in 128 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Old Station House Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3BL. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 3BL
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2012
Consultation expiry
27 July 2012
Target decision date
27 August 2012
Committee meeting
27 August 2012
Decision issued
13 November 2012
Permission expires
8 November 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent
Digital Structures
Agent address
Mr David Ramsay Ashes House Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 July 2012
Advertisement expiry
27 July 2012

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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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