The Airfield Airfield Service Road Shotton Colliery Durham DH6 2NH
Approved on 12 December 2014
Planning committee
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Proposal
Construction of Helicopter Centre comprising helicopter museum display area, servicing/maintenance workshop, learning resource centre, exhibition space, ancillary cafe and gift shop area, and associated external works.
- Received
- 11 August 2014
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Shotton and South Hetton
- ReceivedReceived11 Aug
- ValidatedValidated11 Aug
- Consult.Consultation24 Nov
- TargetTarget Date10 Nov
- DecidedDecided12 Dec
Decided in 123 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at The Airfield Airfield Service Road Shotton Colliery Durham DH6 2NH. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 10 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,182 applications in total for the DH6 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
- DH6 2NH
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Shotton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 August 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 24 November 2014
- Consultation start
- 10 November 2014
- Consultation end
- 24 November 2014
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 December 2014
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 September 2014
- Last date for comments
- 24 November 2014
- Target decision date
- 10 November 2014
- Committee meeting
- 9 December 2014
- Permission expires
- 12 December 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Fao Mr Brian Ashdown The Studio 47 Fieldhouse Lane Durham City County Durham DH1 4LT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 August 2014
- Advertisement expiry
- 11 September 2014
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-03473121
- Documents
- 41
Site constraints
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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