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Land To The South West Of St Mary And St Stephens Church Church Lane Wolsingham DL13 3AJ

DM/23/01255/TCATrees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 19 June 2023

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionTPO/S211 (No objection)

Proposal

Reduce up to 6m including sympathetic reprofiling of the crown and remove dead branches to T1. Lime

Received
3 May 2023
Decision level
TPO/S211 (No objection)
Ward
Weardale
  1. Received3 May
  2. Validated3 May
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target14 Jun
  5. Decided19 Jun

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land To The South West Of St Mary And St Stephens Church Church Lane Wolsingham DL13 3AJ. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.

90% of trees 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 3AJ
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 May 2023
Consultation expiry
6 June 2023
Consultation start
16 May 2023
Consultation end
6 June 2023
Target decision date
14 June 2023
Permission expires
19 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12132368
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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, 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.

© 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.

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