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Old Chapel Colliery Road Bearpark DH7 7AU

4/09/00743/FPAFull Planning ApplicationWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 8 October 2009

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use and conversion of chapel to form 1 no. residential dwelling including insertion of 2 no. doors to rear elevation, insertion of 8 no. rooflights, erection of external staircase and balcony to side and rendering of all elevations (revised and resubmitted)

Received
2 October 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deerness
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated2 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Nov
  4. Target27 Nov
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 6 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Old Chapel Colliery Road Bearpark DH7 7AU. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 6 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Deerness. We hold 1,248 applications in total for the DH7 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
DH7 7AU
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bearpark

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 October 2009
Consultation expiry
5 November 2009
Last date for comments
5 November 2009
Target decision date
27 November 2009

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Fao Mr G Wilkinson Steel House Ponds Court Business Park Genesis Way Consett Co Durham DH8 5XP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 October 2009
Site notice end
5 November 2009

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-00845348
Documents
24

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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© 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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Associated applications

  1. 2009
    8 Oct

    Change of use and conversion of chapel to form 1 no. residential dwelling including insertion of 2 no. doors…

    WithdrawnFull Planning ApplicationFiled alongside4/09/00768/FPA
  2. 2009
    2 Oct

    Change of use and conversion of chapel to form 1 no. residential dwelling including insertion of 2 no. doors…

    This applicationWithdrawnFull4/09/00743/FPA

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