12 Lawther Walk Shotley Bridge Consett DH8 0TT
Approved on 16 September 2024
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
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Proposal
Garage conversion into habitable space and associated works including addition/alteration to fenestration (amended plans received on 9th August).
- Received
- 20 May 2024
- Decision level
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Benfieldside
- Agent
- CR Design Services
- ReceivedReceived20 May
- ValidatedValidated6 Jun
- Consult.Consultation11 Jun
- TargetTarget Date1 Aug
- DecidedDecided16 Sep
Decided in 102 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a garage at 12 Lawther Walk Shotley Bridge Consett DH8 0TT. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 9 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Benfieldside. We hold 1,313 applications in total for the DH8 postcode area.
89% of outline 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 0TT
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Opera
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 11 June 2024
- Consultation start
- 10 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 11 June 2024
- Target decision date
- 1 August 2024
- Permission expires
- 16 September 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- CR Design Services
- Agent address
- Salvus House Aykley Heads County Durham DH1 5TS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13076922
- Documents
- 15
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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Source: Durham
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