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20B Alnwick Road Durham

4/03/00857/FPAFull Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 15 October 2003

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Class A1 Retail Shop to Class A3 Hot Food Takeaway

Received
28 August 2003
Decision level
Planning committee
  1. Received28 Aug
  2. Validated28 Aug
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target23 Oct
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 20B Alnwick Road Durham. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,246 applications in total for the DH1 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
DH1 5LX
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Durham City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 August 2003
Consultation expiry
1 October 2003
Consultation start
4 September 2003
Neighbour consultation start
10 September 2003
Neighbour consultation end
1 October 2003
Last date for comments
23 September 2003
Target decision date
23 October 2003
Committee meeting
15 October 2003
Permission expires
21 October 2008

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Heatherlea Gardens Sunderland Tyne And Wear SR3 1YQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
6

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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