5 Rectory Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3AJ
Approved on 22 October 2015
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionFast Track
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Proposal
T1 Oak and T2 Cypress - Fell in conservation area
- Received
- 28 September 2015
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- ReceivedReceived28 Sep
- ValidatedValidated28 Sep
- Consult.Consultation26 Oct
- TargetTarget Date8 Nov
- DecidedDecided22 Oct
Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 5 Rectory Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3AJ. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 5 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.
90% of trees 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 3AJ
- Application type
- Trees in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wolsingham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 September 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 26 October 2015
- Consultation start
- 5 October 2015
- Consultation end
- 26 October 2015
- Last date for comments
- 26 October 2015
- Target decision date
- 8 November 2015
- Decision issued
- 27 October 2015
- Permission expires
- 27 October 2017
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 41 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Wolsingham
- 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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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202321 Mar
Remove up to 1m from top of T1. Bald Cypress
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaDM/23/00809/TCA - 201713 Sep
T1 Conifer and T2 Swedish Whitebeam - fell trees in a Conservation Area
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaDM/17/03052/TCA - 201419 Sep
Fell 2 No. trees in conservation area
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaDM/14/02835/TCA - 200918 Aug
To fell 1 no. Birch tree and 1 no. Walnut tree
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation Area3/TC/2009/0023
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