17 Church Street Seaham SR7 7HQ
Approved on 14 May 2024
Fast Track
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Proposal
Change of use from greengrocers (Use Class E) to beauty salon and nail bar (Use Class Sui Generis).
- Received
- 11 March 2024
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Dawdon (Historic)
- ReceivedReceived11 Mar
- ValidatedValidated19 Mar
- Consult.Consultation16 Apr
- TargetTarget Date14 May
- DecidedDecided14 May
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 17 Church Street Seaham SR7 7HQ. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Seaham conservation area. 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 7HQ
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Seaham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 March 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 6 May 2024
- Consultation start
- 26 March 2024
- Consultation end
- 16 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 26 March 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 April 2024
- Last date for comments
- 6 May 2024
- Target decision date
- 14 May 2024
- Permission expires
- 14 May 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Sylvan Vista Bridge Lane Brancepeth Durham DH7 8DT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 15 April 2024
- Site notice end
- 6 May 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Seaham
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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Associated applications
- 202411 Mar
Change of use from greengrocers (Use Class E) to beauty salon and nail bar (Use Class Sui Generis).
This applicationApprovedFullDM/24/00686/FPA - 202411 Mar
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ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongsideDM/24/00688/AD
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