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Land To The South Of Marley Hill And East Of Crookgate Bank

8/CMA/1/78Full Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 12 August 2014

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Reclamation & surface mining scheme to extract coal & fireclay involving the remediation of contaminated & derelict land followed by restoration to agriculture, nature conservation, woodland & recreation

Received
14 December 2012
Decision level
Planning committee
  1. Received14 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Aug

Decided in 603 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land To The South Of Marley Hill And East Of Crookgate Bank. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 606 days, 79 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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
Large
Parish
Derwentside District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2012
Consultation expiry
7 February 2013
Consultation start
11 February 2014

Publicity

Last advertised
24 January 2013
Advertisement expiry
7 February 2013
Site notice start
24 January 2013
Site notice end
7 February 2013

Additional information

Documents
577

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: GatesheadPart of the site
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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