High Puddingthorne Cottage Lanehead Bishop Auckland DL13 1AW
Approved on 27 June 2025
Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track
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Proposal
Partial conversion of garden room into habitable room to provide additional reception room/bedroom and shower room. Removal of polycarbonate sheet roof to rear to created flat roof terrace, lower cill to rear first floor window to access rear garden. Inclusion of Solar array to roof of property. (amended 24.06.2025)
- Received
- 11 October 2024
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- Agent
- Ramshaw Architecture
- ReceivedReceived11 Oct
- ValidatedValidated14 Oct
- Consult.Consultation17 Jun
- TargetTarget Date9 Dec
- DecidedDecided27 Jun
Decided in 256 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at High Puddingthorne Cottage Lanehead Bishop Auckland DL13 1AW. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 259 days, 29 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 1AW
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stanhope
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 17 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 3 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 23 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 9 December 2024
- Permission expires
- 27 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ramshaw Architecture
- Agent address
- Ashes Engine House Crawleyside Bank Stanhope Co Durham DL13 2DS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 13 December 2024
- Site notice end
- 3 January 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13454158
- Documents
- 19
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Also checked, none recorded (21)
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Planning history at this site
7 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201629 Jun
Erection of porch
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/16/02085/FPA - 20153 Jul
Greenhouse
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/15/02074/FPA - 201523 Mar
Greenhouse
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/15/00906/FPA - 20144 Jul
Agricultural building
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/14/01934/FPA - 20144 Jul
Change of use from holiday cottage to residential
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/14/01933/FPA - 201212 May
Installation of 16 no. 195W solar pv panels mounted on a slanted roof and all associated works
ApprovedFull Planning Application3/2012/0206 - 201122 Nov
Erection of conservatory to side of existing dwelling
RefusedFull Planning Application3/2011/0478
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