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

DM/24/01732/VOCVariation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 August 2024

Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track

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

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) and 5 (parking) pursuant to planning permission DM/23/02970/FPA for the change of use of the property to a Children's Home, to allow alterations to the approved car parking layout.

Received
26 June 2024
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Dawdon (Historic)
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated8 Jul
  3. Consult.29 Jul
  4. Target2 Sep
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Land And Building East Of County Durham And Darlington Fire And Rescue Service Parkside Road Seaham SR7 7UB. Durham has handled 1,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker 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.

100% of conditions 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
Variation of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seaham

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 July 2024
Consultation expiry
7 August 2024
Consultation start
8 July 2024
Consultation end
29 July 2024
Neighbour consultation start
8 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end
29 July 2024
Last date for comments
7 August 2024
Target decision date
2 September 2024
Permission expires
14 August 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Durham County Council
Agent address
Green Lane Offices Green Lane Spennymoor Durham Durham DL16 6JQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 July 2024
Site notice end
7 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13190859
Documents
7

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

    This applicationApprovedVariation 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…

    ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationPart ofDM/23/02970/FPA

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