St Andrews Church Front Street Westgate DL13 1SD
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Proposal
Change of use of closed former church to single family residential use
- Received
- 13 March 2025
- Decision due
- 5 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- Agent
- Hugh Massey Architects
- ReceivedReceived13 Mar
- ValidatedValidated10 Apr
- Consult.Consultation22 Jul
- TargetTarget Date5 Jun
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at St Andrews Church Front Street Westgate DL13 1SD. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 13 March 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Westgate conservation area. 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 1SD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stanhope
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 22 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 15 July 2025
- Consultation end
- 22 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 May 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hugh Massey Architects
- Agent address
- MILE House Bridge End Chester-le-Street DH3 3RA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 24 April 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 May 2025
- Site notice start
- 30 April 2025
- Site notice end
- 21 May 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13846401
- Documents
- 46
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Westgate
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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.
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Source: Durham
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