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Subway 86 Dalton Park Murton Seaham SR7 9HU

DM/24/03175/CEUCertificate of Lawfulness Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 16 January 2025

Certificate of Lawfulness Existing

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing use to confirm the lawful use of Unit 86 is as Use Class E, including unrestricted retail sales

Received
25 November 2024
Decision level
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
Ward
Murton
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated26 Nov
  3. Consult.26 Dec
  4. Target21 Jan
  5. Decided16 Jan

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Subway 86 Dalton Park Murton Seaham SR7 9HU. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Murton. We hold 619 applications in total for the SR7 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
SR7 9HU
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Murton

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 November 2024
Consultation expiry
26 December 2024
Consultation start
3 December 2024
Last date for comments
26 December 2024
Target decision date
21 January 2025
Decision issued
17 January 2025
Permission expires
17 January 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
WSP
Agent address
First Floor 3 Wellington Place Leeds LS1 4AP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 December 2024
Site notice end
26 December 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13558993
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

Source: Durham

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