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Harperley POW Camp (Craigside) Durham Road Harperley Durham DL15 8DX

DM/14/01254/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 30 July 2014

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of hut 16 to cheese making facility

Received
8 May 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weardale
  1. Received8 May
  2. Validated17 Jun
  3. Consult.18 Jul
  4. Target12 Aug
  5. Decided30 Jul

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Harperley POW Camp (Craigside) Durham Road Harperley Durham DL15 8DX. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 700 applications in total for the DL15 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
DL15 8DX
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 June 2014
Consultation expiry
18 July 2014
Consultation start
27 June 2014
Consultation end
18 July 2014
Last date for comments
18 July 2014
Target decision date
12 August 2014
Decision issued
31 July 2014
Permission expires
31 July 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Swan Street Evenwood Durham DL14 9RN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 June 2014
Site notice end
18 July 2014

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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