Castle Hill House Farm Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 4PJ
Approved on 19 June 2025
Council decision: Approved BNG RequiredFast Track
Proposal
Erection of agricultural building
- Received
- 14 March 2025
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- Agent
- Ramshaw Architecture
- ReceivedReceived14 Mar
- ValidatedValidated2 Apr
- Consult.Consultation8 May
- TargetTarget Date28 May
- DecidedDecided19 Jun
Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Castle Hill House Farm Wolsingham Bishop Auckland DL13 4PJ. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 4PJ
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wolsingham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 23 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 8 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 23 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 May 2025
- Permission expires
- 19 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
- Last advertised
- 1 May 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 22 May 2025
- Site notice start
- 2 May 2025
- Site notice end
- 23 May 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13708665
- Documents
- 16
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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, conservation areas, 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.
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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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