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Garden Cottage Holmside Lane Holmside Durham DH7 6EP

DM/20/01573/FPAFull Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 6 October 2020

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of single dwelling.

Received
19 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lanchester (Historic)
Agent
Ross Architectural Ltd
  1. Received19 Jun
  2. Validated22 Jun
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target17 Aug
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 106 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Garden Cottage Holmside Lane Holmside Durham DH7 6EP. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 8 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. 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 6EP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burnhope

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 June 2020
Consultation expiry
13 August 2020
Consultation start
23 July 2020
Consultation end
13 August 2020
Last date for comments
20 July 2020
Target decision date
17 August 2020
Decision issued
7 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ross Architectural Ltd
Architect profile
ROSS ARCHITECTURAL LTD
Agent address
15 Leet Street Coldstream TD12 4BJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
29 June 2020
Site notice end
20 July 2020

Appeal

Appeal reference
21/00011/REF
Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Appeal history

3270225
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 15 July 2021Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08815624
Documents
32

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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.

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