Land To The North Of 131 Benfieldside Road Benfieldside
Approved on 25 May 2017
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Approval of Reserved Matter: 'Appearance', following grant of Outline Planning Application DM/15/00611/OUT on 25/06/2015 .
- Received
- 20 March 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Benfieldside
- ReceivedReceived20 Mar
- ValidatedValidated21 Mar
- Consult.Consultation12 Apr
- TargetTarget Date16 May
- DecidedDecided25 May
Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land To The North Of 131 Benfieldside Road Benfieldside. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Shotley Bridge conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Benfieldside.
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
- Application type
- Reserved Matters
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 March 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 22 May 2017
- Consultation start
- 22 March 2017
- Consultation end
- 12 April 2017
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 May 2017
- Neighbour consultation end
- 22 May 2017
- Last date for comments
- 22 May 2017
- Target decision date
- 16 May 2017
- Permission expires
- 25 May 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Heriot House, 12 Summerhill Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6EB England
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 30 March 2017
- Advertisement expiry
- 20 April 2017
- Site notice start
- 28 March 2017
- Site notice end
- 18 April 2017
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-05921203
- Documents
- 22
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Shotley Bridge
- 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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Associated applications
- 201720 Mar
Approval of Reserved Matter: 'Appearance', following grant of Outline Planning Application DM/15/00611/OUT
This applicationApprovedReserved mattersDM/17/00949/RM - 201526 Feb
Outline application for erection of two four bed dwelling houses (Amended Plans 29/4/15)
ApprovedOutline ApplicationPart ofDM/15/00611/OUT
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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