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The Byre House Copthill Cowshill Bishop Auckland DL13 1AB

DM/21/01707/VOCVariation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 July 2021

Fast Track

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Removal of condition 6 of planning permission 3/2001/0390 (Change of use and extension of former agricultural buildings to business and residential use and associated works) to remove business use restriction to allow full residential occupancy of the building.

Received
7 May 2021
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Weardale
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated10 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target5 Jul
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to remove a condition at The Byre House Copthill Cowshill Bishop Auckland DL13 1AB. Durham has handled 1,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in the Cowshill conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.

100% of conditions 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 1AB
Application type
Variation of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanhope

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 May 2021
Consultation expiry
4 June 2021
Consultation start
14 May 2021
Consultation end
4 June 2021
Neighbour consultation start
14 May 2021
Neighbour consultation end
4 June 2021
Last date for comments
4 June 2021
Target decision date
5 July 2021
Decision issued
5 July 2021
Permission expires
5 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09817266
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Cowshill
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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, 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.

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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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Associated applications

  1. 2021
    7 May

    Removal of condition 6 of planning permission 3/2001/0390

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DM/21/01707/VOC
  2. 2001
    31 Jul

    Change of use and extension of former agricultural buildings to business and residential use and associated…

    ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationPart of3/2001/0390

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