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Weardale Steel (wolsingham) Ltd Durham Road Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3HX

DM/24/02252/NMANon Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 September 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Non-Material Amendment (Section 96A) Application to Amend Wording of Condition 1 (Approved Plans) in relation to DM/23/02351/RM| Reserved Matters Application for appearance, landscaping, layout and scale and submission of details relating to conditions 5 (Land Contamination Scheme), 11 (landscaping), 12 (landscaping), 14 (foul drainage), 15 (surface drainage), 16 (noise and vibration), 17 (M4(2) and older persons), 21 (pedestrian access) pursuant to Planning Permission DM/20/01421/OUT for 125no. dwellings. on Former Wolsingham Steelworks, Durham Road, Wolsingham, DL13 3HX

Received
15 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weardale
Agent
Hedley Planning Services
  1. Received15 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.24 Sep
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Weardale Steel (wolsingham) Ltd Durham Road Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 3HX. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.

96% of amendment 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 3HX
Application type
Non Material Amendment
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
125
Parish
Wolsingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2024
Consultation expiry
24 September 2024
Consultation start
3 September 2024
Consultation end
24 September 2024
Target decision date
18 September 2024
Permission expires
18 September 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hedley Planning Services
Agent address
Floor 1 Maybrook House Grainger Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 5JE

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13333133
Documents
29

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Brownfield land register: Durham Road, DL13 3HZRegister site at or near this address

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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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.

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