Fern Grove Farm Holiday Cottages 36 Copley Bent Butterknowle Bishop Auckland DL13 5QS
Approved on 30 January 2018
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion of outbuilding to form one bedroom holiday cottage
- Received
- 5 December 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Evenwood
- Agent
- Colling Morris Architectural Services Ltd
- ReceivedReceived5 Dec
- ValidatedValidated6 Dec
- Consult.Consultation1 Jan
- TargetTarget Date31 Jan
- DecidedDecided30 Jan
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Fern Grove Farm Holiday Cottages 36 Copley Bent Butterknowle Bishop Auckland DL13 5QS. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Evenwood. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- DL13 5QS
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lynesack And Softley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 December 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 2 January 2018
- Consultation start
- 11 December 2017
- Consultation end
- 1 January 2018
- Last date for comments
- 2 January 2018
- Target decision date
- 31 January 2018
- Decision issued
- 31 January 2018
- Permission expires
- 31 January 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Colling Morris Architectural Services Ltd
- Architect profile
- COLLING MORRIS ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES LTD
- Agent address
- 1 Greenbank Eggleston Barnard Castle DL12 0BQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 12 December 2017
- Site notice end
- 2 January 2018
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-06584522
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
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)
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20199 Jul
Erection of an agricultural general purpose building
ApprovedPrior Notification AgricultureDM/19/02230/PNA - 201720 Apr
Erection of an agricultural general storage building
ApprovedPrior Notification AgricultureDM/17/01353/PNA - 20132 Jul
Conversion of redundant cow byre to two holiday cottages
ApprovedFull Planning Application6/2013/0209/DM
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