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Kerry Foods Dragon Lane Gilesgate Durham DH1 2QX

DM/14/03806/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 May 2015

Council decision: Approved subject to S106Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

7777 square metres of Trade Warehousing and Showrooms (Use Class B8) comprising 5207 square metres of new buildings and 2570 square metres of refurbished building, Drive Through Restaurant (A3/A5) and associated car parking (235 car spaces)

Received
18 December 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Belmont
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Feb
  4. Target6 Apr
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 137 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Kerry Foods Dragon Lane Gilesgate Durham DH1 2QX. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 155 days, 14 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Belmont. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the DH1 postcode area.

89% of outline 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
DH1 2QX
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Belmont

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2015
Consultation expiry
19 February 2015
Consultation start
29 January 2015
Consultation end
19 February 2015
Neighbour consultation start
22 May 2015
Neighbour consultation end
3 February 2015
Last date for comments
19 February 2015
Target decision date
6 April 2015
Committee meeting
3 March 2015
Permission expires
22 May 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Fao Mr Steve Major 5 Birchwood Dell Doncaster South Yorkshire (Met County) DN4 6SY

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 January 2015
Advertisement expiry
5 February 2015
Site notice start
8 January 2015
Site notice end
29 January 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03834526
Documents
48

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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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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