54 - 55B Church Street Seaham SR7 7HF
Approved on 27 January 2022
Fast Track
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Proposal
Use of first floor as single residential unit, to install new shop front to ground floor and various alterations
- Received
- 15 October 2021
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Dawdon (Historic)
- Agent
- Napper Architects
- ReceivedReceived15 Oct
- ValidatedValidated16 Oct
- Consult.Consultation14 Dec
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided27 Jan
Decided in 103 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 54 - 55B Church Street Seaham SR7 7HF. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 7 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Seaham conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 619 applications in total for the SR7 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
- SR7 7HF
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Seaham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 October 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 14 December 2021
- Consultation start
- 23 November 2021
- Consultation end
- 14 December 2021
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 November 2021
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 November 2021
- Last date for comments
- 3 December 2021
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2021
- Permission expires
- 27 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Napper Architects
- Architect profile
- NAPPER ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- 3 Waterloo Square Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4DR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 11 November 2021
- Advertisement expiry
- 2 December 2021
- Site notice start
- 12 November 2021
- Site notice end
- 3 December 2021
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-10305127
- Documents
- 31
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Seaham
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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