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157 Durham Road Blackhill Consett DH8 5TH

DM/17/02592/PNCPrior Notification Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 17 October 2017

Council decision: Prior Approval Reqd and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Prior notification for change of use of care home to children's nursery

Received
3 August 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Consett North
Agent
BW Architecture
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated23 Aug
  3. Consult.20 Oct
  4. Target17 Oct
  5. Decided17 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 157 Durham Road Blackhill Consett DH8 5TH. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 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 10 applications across Consett North. We hold 1,314 applications in total for the DH8 postcode area.

96% of amendment 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
DH8 5TH
Application type
Prior Notification Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 August 2017
Consultation expiry
20 October 2017
Consultation start
6 October 2017
Consultation end
20 October 2017
Neighbour consultation start
23 August 2017
Neighbour consultation end
13 September 2017
Last date for comments
20 October 2017
Target decision date
17 October 2017
Permission expires
17 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
BW Architecture
Agent address
104 Great Lime Road Westmoor Newcastle Upon Tyne NE12 7DQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 September 2017
Site notice end
22 September 2017

Additional information

Documents
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: BlackhillPart of the site
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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