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The Hemmel Thistlewood Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3HG

DM/23/03414/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 March 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use of agricultural byre into one bedroom holiday cottage

Received
13 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weardale (Historic)
  1. Received13 Nov
  2. Validated15 Nov
  3. Consult.19 Dec
  4. Target10 Jan
  5. Decided1 Mar

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Hemmel Thistlewood Lane Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3HG. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 8 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 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
DL13 3HG
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 November 2023
Consultation expiry
19 December 2023
Consultation start
28 November 2023
Consultation end
19 December 2023
Neighbour consultation start
15 November 2023
Neighbour consultation end
6 December 2023
Last date for comments
7 December 2023
Target decision date
10 January 2024
Permission expires
1 March 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Little Redgate Farm Redgate Bank Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3HH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 November 2023
Site notice end
7 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
  • 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 (21)

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, 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
    19 Dec

    Discharge of Condition 3 (bin store), Condition 5 (door and window details), and Condition 6 (roof materials…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDM/24/03442/DRC
  2. 2023
    13 Nov

    Change of use of agricultural byre into one bedroom holiday cottage

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/23/03414/FPA

Source: Durham

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