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Durham Community Business College Bracken Court Ushaw Moor Durham DH7 7NG

DM/18/00577/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 26 April 2018

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing school buildings and erection of a replacement school building, with car parking, hard and soft landscaping and access.

Received
21 February 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deerness
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated1 Mar
  3. Consult.17 Apr
  4. Target26 Apr
  5. Decided26 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Durham Community Business College Bracken Court Ushaw Moor Durham DH7 7NG. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Deerness. We hold 1,248 applications in total for the DH7 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
DH7 7NG
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Brandon And Byshottles

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 March 2018
Consultation expiry
17 April 2018
Consultation start
27 March 2018
Consultation end
17 April 2018
Neighbour consultation start
6 March 2018
Neighbour consultation end
27 March 2018
Last date for comments
5 April 2018
Target decision date
26 April 2018
Permission expires
26 April 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lichfields
Agent address
The St Nicholas Building St Nicholas Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 1RF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 March 2018
Advertisement expiry
5 April 2018
Site notice start
8 March 2018
Site notice end
29 March 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06748805
Documents
52

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: County DurhamPart 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, 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.

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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