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Land To The South Of 28 Station Road West Rainton DH4 6SF

DM/25/01965/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 13 November 2025

Council decision: S106+Approved BNG RequiredPlanning committee

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

Development of 14no. bungalows and a retail unit (Amended Description 05/08/2025).

Received
18 July 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
0 · last counted 8 November 2026
Ward
Lumley And West Rainton
Agent
The Land Exchange Limited
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated21 Jul
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 115 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land To The South Of 28 Station Road West Rainton DH4 6SF. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 9 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Lumley And West Rainton. We hold 167 applications in total for the DH4 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
DH4 6SF
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
West Rainton

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 July 2025
Consultation expiry
28 August 2025
Consultation start
23 July 2025
Consultation end
13 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
23 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
13 August 2025
Last date for comments
28 August 2025
Target decision date
13 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Land Exchange Limited
Agent address
Post Office House Borrowby YO7 4QL England

Planning decision

Case officer
Callum Harvey
Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
31 July 2025
Advertisement expiry
21 August 2025
Site notice start
7 August 2025
Site notice end
28 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14140309
Documents
51

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.

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