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St Mary And St Stephens Church Church Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3AJ

3/OE/2011/0002Pre-Application Outline EnquiriesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 October 2011

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Extension of existing cemetery involving the change of use of land from open pasture to cemetery

Received
11 October 2011
  1. Received11 Oct
  2. Validated11 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Nov
  5. Decided18 Oct

Decided in 7 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at St Mary And St Stephens Church Church Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 3AJ. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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 3AJ
Application type
Pre-Application Outline Enquiries
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 October 2011
Target decision date
8 November 2011

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Durham

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