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Kings Head Cottages, Royal Oak, Heighington

6/2007/0182/DMFull Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 13 June 2007

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective application for change of use of agricultural land and buildings to land and buildings for storage for plant hire and contracting vehicles

Received
12 April 2007
Decision level
Planning committee
  1. Received12 Apr
  2. Validated12 Apr
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided13 Jun

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Kings Head Cottages, Royal Oak, Heighington. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address.

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

Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Etherley

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 April 2007
Consultation expiry
21 May 2007
Consultation start
30 April 2007
Consultation end
21 May 2007
Last date for comments
21 May 2007
Target decision date
7 June 2007
Committee meeting
13 June 2007

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Morton House Morton Road Darlington Co Durham DL1 4PT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 April 2007
Site notice end
16 May 2007

Additional information

Documents
19

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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