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Melrose Arms Office Row Front Street Shotton Colliery Dh6 2na (Postal Address - Al-Hayat Foundation, 1A Front Street, Shotton DH6 2NB)

5/PL/2011/0060Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 May 2012

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from public house to educational centre (class D1:non-residential institutions)

Received
14 February 2011
Decision level
Planning committee
Agent
AN DESIGN LTD
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated7 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 May
  5. Decided8 May

Decided in 428 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Melrose Arms Office Row Front Street Shotton Colliery Dh6 2na (Postal Address - Al-Hayat Foundation, 1A Front Street, Shotton DH6 2NB). Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 449 days, 56 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,180 applications in total for the DH6 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
DH6 2NA
Application type
Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shotton

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 March 2011
Consultation expiry
5 April 2011
Consultation start
25 October 2011
Neighbour consultation start
10 March 2011
Target decision date
2 May 2011
Committee meeting
8 May 2012
Decision issued
11 May 2012
Permission expires
8 May 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent
AN DESIGN LTD
Agent address
Mr A Neki 28 Headfield Road Savile Town Dewsbury Wf12 9je

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 March 2011
Site notice end
5 April 2011

Additional information

Documents
29

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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