Nabend Farm The Slack Butterknowle Bishop Auckland DL13 5HT
Approved on 3 December 2015
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use to dog breeding business and erection of kennels (retrospective)
- Received
- 23 July 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Evenwood
- ReceivedReceived23 Jul
- ValidatedValidated24 Jul
- Consult.Consultation29 Sep
- TargetTarget Date18 Sep
- DecidedDecided3 Dec
Decided in 132 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Nabend Farm The Slack Butterknowle Bishop Auckland DL13 5HT. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Evenwood. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 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
- DL13 5HT
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lynesack And Softley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 July 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 29 September 2015
- Consultation start
- 8 September 2015
- Consultation end
- 29 September 2015
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 July 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 19 August 2015
- Last date for comments
- 29 September 2015
- Target decision date
- 18 September 2015
- Permission expires
- 3 December 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- England And Lyle Gateway House 55 Coniscliffe Road Darlington County Durham DL3 7EH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-04315853
- Documents
- 17
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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Associated applications
- 20164 Jan
Discharge of condition 5 of planning permisison DM/15/02295/FPA
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDRC/16/00002 - 201523 Jul
Change of use to dog breeding business and erection of kennels (retrospective)
This applicationApprovedFullDM/15/02295/FPA
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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