Land To The East Of Checker Leazes Farm Copeland Lane West Auckland DL14 9NQ
Approved on 9 April 2025
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
Proposal
Certificate of Lawful Development for excavation works to provide a digestate lagoon and associated embankment
- Received
- 1 November 2024
- Decision level
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Evenwood
- ReceivedReceived1 Nov
- ValidatedValidated7 Jan
- Consult.Consultation10 Jan
- TargetTarget Date4 Mar
- DecidedDecided9 Apr
Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land To The East Of Checker Leazes Farm Copeland Lane West Auckland DL14 9NQ. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 159 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 23 applications across Evenwood. We hold 447 applications in total for the DL14 postcode area.
89% of outline 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 9NQ
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Opera
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Etherley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 January 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 30 January 2025
- Consultation start
- 9 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 10 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 January 2025
- Last date for comments
- 30 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 4 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 9 April 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- GFW
- Agent address
- Dean Street Arch 22 Dean Street Between Moorfarm Roundabout And Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 1PG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13482050
- Documents
- 9
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.
© 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.
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Source: Durham
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