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73 Church Street Seaham SR7 7HE

DM/18/03103/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 6 December 2018

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Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from A1 to coffee shop / bar with takeaway option, including refurbishment of shop front. Change of use of upstairs dwelling to holiday let with new external stairwell to rear.

Received
11 October 2018
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Dawdon
  1. Received11 Oct
  2. Validated12 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Nov
  4. Target7 Dec
  5. Decided6 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 73 Church Street Seaham SR7 7HE. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Seaham conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 619 applications in total for the SR7 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
SR7 7HE
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaham

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 October 2018
Consultation expiry
27 November 2018
Consultation start
16 October 2018
Consultation end
6 November 2018
Neighbour consultation start
16 October 2018
Neighbour consultation end
6 November 2018
Last date for comments
27 November 2018
Target decision date
7 December 2018
Permission expires
6 December 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 October 2018
Advertisement expiry
15 November 2018
Site notice start
6 November 2018
Site notice end
27 November 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07268195
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Seaham
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Seaham
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Associated applications

  1. 2018
    11 Oct

    Change of use from A1 to coffee shop / bar with takeaway option, including refurbishment of shop front…

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/18/03103/FPA
  2. 2018
    11 Oct

    New signage to front of shop

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongsideDM/18/03104/AD

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