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Former Post Office 2 Front Street Great Lumley Chester-le-street DH3 4JD

DM/19/02438/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 26 September 2019

Fast Track

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of Use from retail (Class A1) to restaurant (Class A3), car parking, replacement shop front, rear single storey extension and extraction flue (Resubmission)

Received
25 July 2019
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Lumley (Historic)
  1. Received25 Jul
  2. Validated2 Aug
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target27 Sep
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Former Post Office 2 Front Street Great Lumley Chester-le-street DH3 4JD. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 670 applications in total for the DH3 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
DH3 4JD
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Lumley

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 August 2019
Consultation expiry
1 October 2019
Consultation start
19 September 2019
Consultation end
1 October 2019
Neighbour consultation start
19 September 2019
Neighbour consultation end
26 September 2019
Last date for comments
26 September 2019
Target decision date
27 September 2019
Permission expires
26 September 2022

Planning decision

Case officer
Carole Dillon
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 August 2019
Site notice end
29 August 2019

Additional information

Documents
41

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2020
    5 Aug

    Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) pursuant to DM/19/02438/FPA

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DM/20/02143/VOC
  2. 2019
    25 Jul

    Change of Use from retail (Class A1) to restaurant (Class A3), car parking, replacement shop front, rear…

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/19/02438/FPA

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