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Land To The East Of Dixon Street Blackhill DH8 5UF

DM/15/02004/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 9 September 2015

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of 1 no. portable container unit to house a portable chemical toilet in car park area for temporary period July 2015 to May 2016

Received
26 June 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Consett North
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.19 Aug
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided9 Sep

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Land To The East Of Dixon Street Blackhill DH8 5UF. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 10 applications across Consett North. We hold 1,314 applications in total for the DH8 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
DH8 5UF
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2015
Consultation expiry
19 August 2015
Consultation start
29 July 2015
Consultation end
19 August 2015
Neighbour consultation start
22 July 2015
Neighbour consultation end
12 August 2015
Last date for comments
19 August 2015
Target decision date
11 September 2015
Permission expires
9 September 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 July 2015
Site notice end
17 August 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04298493
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BlackhillNext to the site
  • 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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© 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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2002
    18 Apr

    Car park

    ApprovedCounty Council Application Reg. 31/2002/0315

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