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Unit 5 McIntyre Way Durham City Retail Park Gilesgate Moor Durham DH1 2RP

DM/15/02542/COLCertificate of Lawfulness Proposed DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 October 2015

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a lawful development certificate for an existing use for retail purposes (Class A1) without restriction on the range of goods sold.

Received
14 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Belmont
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.16 Sep
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Unit 5 McIntyre Way Durham City Retail Park Gilesgate Moor Durham DH1 2RP. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 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 2RP
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Belmont

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2015
Consultation expiry
23 September 2015
Consultation start
26 August 2015
Consultation end
16 September 2015
Last date for comments
23 September 2015
Target decision date
16 October 2015
Permission expires
27 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Fao Mr Tim Miles 5 Bolton Street London W1J 8BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 September 2015
Site notice end
23 September 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04426887
Documents
8

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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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