Land To North Of No 6 Sherborne Great Lumley
Approved on 3 December 2015
Fast Track
Proposal
Change of use from amenity land to domestic garden and extension of fence (part retrospective)
- Received
- 28 October 2015
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Lumley
- ReceivedReceived28 Oct
- ValidatedValidated2 Nov
- Consult.Consultation25 Nov
- TargetTarget Date28 Dec
- DecidedDecided3 Dec
Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Land To North Of No 6 Sherborne Great Lumley. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.
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
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Lumley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 November 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 26 November 2015
- Consultation end
- 25 November 2015
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 November 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 November 2015
- Last date for comments
- 30 November 2015
- Target decision date
- 28 December 2015
- Permission expires
- 3 December 2018
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 5 November 2015
- Site notice end
- 26 November 2015
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: County Durham
- 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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