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Old Chapel Colliery Road Bearpark DH7 7AU

4/09/00917/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 26 January 2010

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use and conversion of chapel to form 1 no. residential dwelling with granny annex at basement level, including insertion of 8 no. rooflights (revised and resubmitted)

Received
1 December 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deerness
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.24 Dec
  4. Target26 Jan
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 56 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. This one was decided in 56 days. 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
1 December 2009
Consultation expiry
31 December 2009
Consultation start
2 December 2009
Consultation end
24 December 2009
Neighbour consultation start
9 December 2009
Neighbour consultation end
30 December 2009
Last date for comments
31 December 2009
Target decision date
26 January 2010
Committee meeting
26 January 2010
Permission expires
26 January 2013

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
10 December 2009
Site notice end
31 December 2009

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-00898529
Documents
34

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.

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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. 2010
    28 Apr

    Discharge of p[lanning conditions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 13 pursuant to 4/09/00917/FPA

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions4/10/00303/DRC
  2. 2009
    1 Dec

    Change of use and conversion of chapel to form 1 no. residential dwelling with granny annex at basement…

    This applicationApprovedFull4/09/00917/FPA

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