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20A Front Street Annfield Plain Stanley DH9 8HY

DM/25/01704/PN56Prior Approval ScenariosWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 29 August 2025

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification (Part 3 Class G) for change of use of vacant upper floors into 2no. self-contained flats, ground floor retains commercial use. Insertion of 3no. new rooflights in rear roof slope.

Received
26 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Annfield Plain And Tanfield
Agent
Mold Consultancy LTD
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.4 Aug
  4. Target7 Sep
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 20A Front Street Annfield Plain Stanley DH9 8HY. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 64 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Annfield Plain conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Annfield Plain And Tanfield. We hold 1,473 applications in total for the DH9 postcode area.

89% of outline 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
DH9 8HY
Application type
Prior Approval Scenarios
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stanley

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2025
Consultation expiry
7 August 2025
Consultation start
14 July 2025
Consultation end
4 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
14 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
4 August 2025
Last date for comments
7 August 2025
Target decision date
7 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mold Consultancy LTD
Architect profile
MOLD CONSULTANCY LTD
Agent address
37 Side First Floor Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 3JE

Planning decision

Case officer
Mark Sandford
Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 July 2025
Site notice end
7 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14076723
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Annfield Plain
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Annfield Plain
  • 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, 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

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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.

© 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.

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