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Old Post Office Cornriggs Lanehead Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1AQ

3/CL/2006/0001Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 March 2007

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful use or development for the change of use of a post office/shop to residential

Received
18 December 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided1 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Old Post Office Cornriggs Lanehead Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1AQ. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.

89% of outline 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 1AQ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2007
Consultation expiry
20 February 2007
Target decision date
26 March 2007
Committee meeting
26 March 2007
Decision issued
13 March 2007
Permission expires
1 March 2007

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Norman Pooley Highfield Hunderthwaite Barnard Castle DL12 9EU

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 January 2007
Site notice end
20 February 2007

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
  • SSSI: Cornriggs Meadows SSSIPart of the site
  • Special Area of Conservation: North Pennine Dales MeadowsPart of the site
  • 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 (19)

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, 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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