Harperley POW Camp Durham Road Fir Tree Bishop Auckland County Durham DL15 8DX
Refused on 18 September 2015
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Retention of entrance gate and erection of wall
- Received
- 15 July 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- ReceivedReceived15 Jul
- ValidatedValidated16 Jul
- Consult.Consultation29 Sep
- TargetTarget Date10 Sep
- DecidedDecided18 Sep
Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Harperley POW Camp Durham Road Fir Tree Bishop Auckland County Durham DL15 8DX. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days 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
- 16 July 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 29 September 2015
- Consultation start
- 8 September 2015
- Consultation end
- 29 September 2015
- Last date for comments
- 29 September 2015
- Target decision date
- 10 September 2015
- Decision issued
- 21 September 2015
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- TOHP Architects The Old Hall 57 Front Street West Auckland Bishop Auckland County Durham DL14 9HL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 27 July 2015
- Site notice end
- 17 August 2015
Additional information
- Documents
- 18
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Scheduled monument: Harperley Working Camp, World War II prisoner of war camp at CraigsidePart of the site
- Heritage at Risk Register: Harperley Working Camp, World War II Prisoner of War camp at CraigsidePart of 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 (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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1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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