Land To The North West Of High Crows House Wheatley Hill DH6 3QL
Proposal
Proposed battery energy storage system (BESS) together with associated infrastructure, engineering works and landscaping
- Received
- 15 August 2025
- Decision due
- 26 November 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Easington And Shotton
- ReceivedReceived15 Aug
- ValidatedValidated27 Aug
- Consult.Consultation18 Sep
- TargetTarget Date26 Nov
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is a full planning application at Land To The North West Of High Crows House Wheatley Hill DH6 3QL. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 15 August 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Easington And Shotton. We hold 1,182 applications in total for the DH6 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
- DH6 3QL
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Shadforth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 September 2026
- Consultation start
- 2 October 2026
- Consultation end
- 18 September 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 October 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 11 September 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 2 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 22 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 13 October 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14109223
- Documents
- 129
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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