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Land At 40-82 Farnham Road Newton Hall Durham DH1 5LA

DM/25/01556/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 21 October 2026

Council decision: S106+Approved BNG RequiredPlanning committee28 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Construction of 22no. affordable dwellings with associated parking, open space and SuDS (Amended Scheme)

Received
10 June 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Framwellgate And Newton Hall
Agent
Hedley Planning Services
  1. Received10 Jun
  2. Validated11 Jun
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target10 Sep
  5. Decided21 Oct

Decided in 497 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land At 40-82 Farnham Road Newton Hall Durham DH1 5LA. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 498 days, 63 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Framwellgate And Newton Hall. We hold 1,246 applications in total for the DH1 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
DH1 5LA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
22
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 June 2025
Consultation expiry
19 May 2026
Consultation start
16 June 2026
Consultation end
5 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
6 July 2026
Neighbour consultation end
19 May 2026
Last date for comments
19 May 2026
Target decision date
10 September 2025
Permission expires
21 October 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hedley Planning Services
Agent address
Floor 3 Maybrook House Grainger Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 5JE

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 June 2025
Advertisement expiry
17 July 2025
Site notice start
18 June 2025
Site notice end
9 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14060711
Documents
148

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    30 Oct

    Application for the discharge of condition 8 (Biodiversity Gain Plan), 9 (HMMP), 13 (bat and bird boxes), 14…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDM/26/02904/DRC
  2. 2025
    10 Jun

    Construction of 22no. affordable dwellings with associated parking, open space and SuDS (Amended Scheme)

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/25/01556/FPA

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