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Land And Building East Of County Durham And Darlington Fire And Rescue Service Parkside Road Seaham SR7 7UB

DM/23/02970/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 January 2024

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Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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Proposal

Change of use from former fire and rescue ancillary residential accommodation to a Childrens Home (Use Class C2) for up to 4 children with associated parking and alterations to existing landscape, CCTV cameras and erection of fencing.

Received
4 October 2023
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Dawdon (Historic)
  1. Received4 Oct
  2. Validated11 Oct
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target6 Dec
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 111 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Land And Building East Of County Durham And Darlington Fire And Rescue Service Parkside Road Seaham SR7 7UB. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 9 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. 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 7UB
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaham

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 October 2023
Consultation expiry
29 January 2024
Consultation start
15 January 2024
Consultation end
29 January 2024
Neighbour consultation start
11 October 2023
Neighbour consultation end
1 November 2023
Last date for comments
3 November 2023
Target decision date
6 December 2023
Permission expires
30 January 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Durham County Council - Corporate Property and Land
Agent address
Corporate Property And Land County Hall Durham Durham Durham DH1 5UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 October 2023
Site notice end
3 November 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12477820
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    26 Jun

    Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) and 5 (parking) pursuant to planning permission DM/23/02970/FPA

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DM/24/01732/VOC
  2. 2023
    4 Oct

    Change of use from former fire and rescue ancillary residential accommodation to a Childrens Home (Use Class…

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/23/02970/FPA

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