Site Of Former Weardale Steel Durham Road Wolsingham DL13 3HX
Approved on 6 February 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Discharge of Condition 25 (EV Details) in relation to DM/20/01421/OUT | Outline planning permission for up to 151 new homes of mixed type and tenure, conversion of former office buildings for up to 750sqm on Former Wolsingham Steelworks
- Received
- 9 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- Agent
- Hedley Planning Services
- ReceivedReceived9 Dec
- ValidatedValidated9 Dec
- Consult.Consultation1 Jan
- TargetTarget Date3 Feb
- DecidedDecided6 Feb
Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Site Of Former Weardale Steel Durham Road Wolsingham DL13 3HX. Durham has handled 1,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 5 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.
100% of conditions 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
- Details Reserved by Condition
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 151
- Parish
- Wolsingham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 1 January 2025
- Consultation start
- 11 December 2024
- Consultation end
- 1 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 February 2025
- Permission expires
- 6 February 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hedley Planning Services
- Agent address
- Floor 1 Maybrook House Grainger Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 5JE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13598328
- Documents
- 2
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Brownfield land register: Durham Road, DL13 3HZRegister site at or near this address
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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