Unit 5 Front Street Great Lumley Chester-le-Street DH3 4JB
Approved on 28 August 2020
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
External alterations to Unit 5 to subdivide the unit into no.3 commercial units and change of use of Unit 5a and 5b to Classes A1 / A2 / A3 / A4 / A5 and Unit 5c to Classes A1 / A2 / A3 / A4 / A5 / D2 (part retrospective).
- Received
- 3 July 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Lumley (Historic)
- Agent
- ELG Planning
- ReceivedReceived3 Jul
- ValidatedValidated3 Jul
- Consult.Consultation29 Jul
- TargetTarget Date28 Aug
- DecidedDecided28 Aug
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 5 Front Street Great Lumley Chester-le-Street DH3 4JB. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. 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 4JB
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Lumley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 July 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 29 July 2020
- Consultation start
- 8 July 2020
- Consultation end
- 29 July 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 July 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 July 2020
- Last date for comments
- 29 July 2020
- Target decision date
- 28 August 2020
- Permission expires
- 28 August 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- ELG Planning
- Agent address
- Gateway House 55 Coniscliffe Road Darlington DL3 7EH
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Connor Willis
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08853381
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
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.
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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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