Benfieldside Primary School Benfieldside Road Benfieldside Consett DH8 0JX
Approved on 31 October 2023
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
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Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness for the existing lawful use of land as a community garden.
- Received
- 31 August 2023
- Decision level
- Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Benfieldside (Historic)
- ReceivedReceived31 Aug
- ValidatedValidated1 Sep
- Consult.Consultation4 Oct
- TargetTarget Date27 Oct
- DecidedDecided31 Oct
Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Benfieldside Primary School Benfieldside Road Benfieldside Consett DH8 0JX. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,314 applications in total for the DH8 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
- DH8 0JX
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Existing Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 September 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 11 October 2023
- Consultation start
- 13 September 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 13 September 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 October 2023
- Last date for comments
- 11 October 2023
- Target decision date
- 27 October 2023
- Permission expires
- 31 October 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 20 September 2023
- Site notice end
- 11 October 2023
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12425436
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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