West Auckland Town AFC Darlington Road West Auckland Bishop Auckland DL14 9HU
Approved on 19 August 2024
Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track
Proposal
Removal of existing columns and lighting, with the installation of new LED lighting and columns.
- Received
- 28 May 2024
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- West Auckland
- ReceivedReceived28 May
- ValidatedValidated6 Jun
- Consult.Consultation4 Jul
- TargetTarget Date1 Aug
- DecidedDecided19 Aug
Decided in 74 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at West Auckland Town AFC Darlington Road West Auckland Bishop Auckland DL14 9HU. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across West Auckland. We hold 448 applications in total for the DL14 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
- DL14 9HU
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- West Auckland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 26 July 2024
- Consultation start
- 13 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 4 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 13 June 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 July 2024
- Last date for comments
- 26 July 2024
- Target decision date
- 1 August 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 August 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Midstream Lighting
- Agent address
- Unit 3 Ure Bank Maltings Ripon HG4 1AE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 5 July 2024
- Site notice end
- 26 July 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13103666
- Documents
- 19
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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
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© 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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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