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Unit 2 Pontop Centre Harelaw Industrial Estate Harelaw Stanley DH9 8HW

DM/19/00799/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 1 May 2019

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Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to education and training facility with cafe facilities.

Received
12 March 2019
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Annfield Plain
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated1 Apr
  3. Consult.29 Apr
  4. Target27 May
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 2 Pontop Centre Harelaw Industrial Estate Harelaw Stanley DH9 8HW. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,473 applications in total for the DH9 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
DH9 8HW
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanley

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 April 2019
Consultation expiry
29 April 2019
Consultation start
15 April 2019
Consultation end
29 April 2019
Neighbour consultation start
2 April 2019
Neighbour consultation end
23 April 2019
Last date for comments
23 April 2019
Target decision date
27 May 2019
Permission expires
1 May 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 April 2019
Site notice end
22 April 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07597970
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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