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Wolsingham School And Community College Leazes Lane Wolsingham Durham DL13 3DN

DM/14/00925/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 October 2014

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Car parking remodelling and associated landscaping works

Received
11 April 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weardale
  1. Received11 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.2 Jul
  4. Target9 Jun
  5. Decided1 Oct

Decided in 170 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Wolsingham School And Community College Leazes Lane Wolsingham Durham DL13 3DN. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 173 days, 17 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 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
DL13 3DN
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2014
Consultation expiry
2 July 2014
Consultation start
11 June 2014
Consultation end
2 July 2014
Neighbour consultation start
2 October 2014
Neighbour consultation end
7 May 2014
Last date for comments
2 July 2014
Target decision date
9 June 2014
Decision issued
2 October 2014
Permission expires
2 October 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FOA Ms K Dewell FaulknerBrowns Architects The Beehive Lingfield Point Darlington County Durham DL1 1YN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 April 2014
Site notice end
14 May 2014

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03316458
Documents
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Wolsingham
  • 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, 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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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