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Low Harperley Farm Durham Road Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL15 8DY

DM/15/02478/PNAPrior Notification AgricultureApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 August 2015

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior notification for the erection of an agricultural building

Received
7 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weardale
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated10 Aug
  3. Consult.3 Sep
  4. Target6 Sep
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 10 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Low Harperley Farm Durham Road Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL15 8DY. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 13 days, 6 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 698 applications in total for the DL15 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
DL15 8DY
Application type
Prior Notification Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 August 2015
Consultation expiry
3 September 2015
Consultation start
13 August 2015
Consultation end
3 September 2015
Target decision date
6 September 2015
Decision issued
24 August 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Vickers & Barrass Chartered Surveyors 16/17 Castle Bank Tow Law Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 4AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04410020
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2018
    8 Feb

    Steel portal framed straw shed

    ApprovedPrior Notification AgricultureDM/18/00480/PNA

Source: Durham

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