Old Co Operative Buildings 2 Front Street Langley Park DH7 9XE
Approved on 22 May 2023
Council decision: Prior Approval Reqd and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed conversion of upper floor of building to provide 8no. two bedroom apartments and 2no. one bedroom apartments (amended 14.4.23)
- Received
- 7 November 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Esh and Witton Gilbert
- Agent
- Glasper Lee Design Ltd
- ReceivedReceived7 Nov
- ValidatedValidated29 Nov
- Consult.Consultation3 May
- TargetTarget Date24 Jan
- DecidedDecided22 May
Decided in 174 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Old Co Operative Buildings 2 Front Street Langley Park DH7 9XE. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 196 days, 20 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,248 applications in total for the DH7 postcode area.
96% of amendment 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 9XE
- Application type
- Prior Notification Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Esh
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 November 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 3 May 2023
- Consultation start
- 19 April 2023
- Consultation end
- 3 May 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 December 2022
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 December 2022
- Last date for comments
- 27 December 2022
- Target decision date
- 24 January 2023
- Permission expires
- 22 May 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Glasper Lee Design Ltd
- Architect profile
- GLASPER LEE DESIGN LIMITED
- Agent address
- Office 4 16 Tenters Street Bishop Auckland DL14 7AD United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11569007
- Documents
- 33
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Also checked, none recorded (22)
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