Telephone Exchange Front Street Burnopfield NE16 6PT
Approved on 15 July 2014
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Cut back limb by 2-3 metres on one Chestnut tree (Section 211 Notice)
- Received
- 24 June 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Burnopfield and Dipton
- ReceivedReceived24 Jun
- ValidatedValidated24 Jun
- Consult.Consultation25 Jul
- TargetTarget Date5 Aug
- DecidedDecided15 Jul
Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Telephone Exchange Front Street Burnopfield NE16 6PT. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Burnopfield conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,520 applications in total for the NE16 postcode area.
90% of trees 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
- NE16 6PT
- Application type
- Trees in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 June 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 25 July 2014
- Consultation start
- 4 July 2014
- Consultation end
- 25 July 2014
- Last date for comments
- 28 July 2014
- Target decision date
- 5 August 2014
- Decision issued
- 23 July 2014
- Permission expires
- 23 July 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 34 Woodhouse Road Kilburn Belper Derbyshire DE56 0NA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Burnopfield
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202518 Feb
Replacement of 2no. glass panes with aluminium ventilation louvres in two high level windows in ground floor…
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/25/00481/FPA - 201813 Aug
T3 Mature Cypress tree crown reduction 1m in height and width. T4 Mature spruce Tree, prune back braches by…
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaDM/18/02447/TCA - 201810 May
Reduce approx 50LM of Hawthorn hedge (H1) that is overgrown down from approx 13ft in height to approx 6ft in…
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaDM/18/01401/TCA - 200614 Nov
Pruning of three ash and one beech tree (tpo 6)
ApprovedTree Preservation Order1/2006/0965/58579
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