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Weardale Museum And High House Chapel Ireshopeburn Bishop Auckland DL13 1HD

DM/20/02199/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 May 2021

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Restoration and re-modelling of Museum and Chapel to form a Heritage Centre. Single storey Visitor Centre building. Creation of car park to south. (Amended car park plans 22.03.2021).

Received
10 August 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weardale (Historic)
Agent
NEW BOLD DESIGN
  1. Received10 Aug
  2. Validated10 Nov
  3. Consult.13 Apr
  4. Target5 Jan
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 182 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Weardale Museum And High House Chapel Ireshopeburn Bishop Auckland DL13 1HD. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 274 days, 31 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Ireshopeburn, Newhouse and West Blackdene conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 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
DL13 1HD
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanhope

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 November 2020
Consultation expiry
13 April 2021
Consultation start
23 March 2021
Consultation end
13 April 2021
Neighbour consultation start
11 November 2020
Neighbour consultation end
2 December 2020
Last date for comments
10 December 2020
Target decision date
5 January 2021
Permission expires
11 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
NEW BOLD DESIGN
Agent address
6A West Blackdene Ireshopeburn Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 1EQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 November 2020
Advertisement expiry
10 December 2020
Site notice start
13 November 2020
Site notice end
4 December 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08963725
Documents
55

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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, 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.

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
    10 Aug

    Restoration and re-modelling of Museum and Chapel to form a Heritage Centre. Single storey Visitor Centre…

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/20/02199/FPA
  2. 2020
    10 Aug

    Restoration and re-modelling to form a Weardale Heritage Centre including a new single storey Visitor Centre…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideDM/20/02200/LB

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