Virginia Cottage 6 Harthope Road St Johns Chapel Bishop Auckland DL13 1QD
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Proposal
Two storey side extension
- Received
- 9 June 2025
- Decision due
- 5 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- ReceivedReceived9 Jun
- ValidatedValidated10 Jun
- Consult.Consultation25 Jul
- TargetTarget Date5 Aug
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is a full planning application for a two storey side extension at Virginia Cottage 6 Harthope Road St Johns Chapel Bishop Auckland DL13 1QD. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 9 June 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the St John's Chapel conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. 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 1QD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stanhope
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 4 July 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 July 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 26 June 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 17 July 2025
- Site notice start
- 20 June 2025
- Site notice end
- 11 July 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13720930
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St John's Chapel
- 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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