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1 Ling Riggs Ireshopeburn Bishop Auckland DL13 1HN

DM/24/02516/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 20 February 2025

Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track

Proposal

A multipurpose agricultural building, predominantly used for housing livestock (cattle and sheep) but it will also be used for storage of winter fodder and agricultural machinery.

Received
12 September 2024
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Weardale
  1. Received12 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.17 Feb
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 148 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 1 Ling Riggs Ireshopeburn Bishop Auckland DL13 1HN. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 161 days, 15 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
DL13 1HN
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanhope

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2024
Consultation expiry
17 February 2025
Consultation start
27 January 2025
Consultation end
17 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
11 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
1 November 2024
Last date for comments
19 November 2024
Target decision date
20 November 2024
Permission expires
20 February 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Vickers & Barrass
Agent address
16/17 Castle Bank Tow Law Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 4AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 October 2024
Advertisement expiry
7 November 2024
Site notice start
29 October 2024
Site notice end
19 November 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13389498
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
  • 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 (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, 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.

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