Low House Farm Middlestone Moor Spennymoor DL16 7QD
Approved on 13 January 2026
Council decision: Approved BNG RequiredFast Track
Proposal
Erection of a general purpose livestock building
- Received
- 19 August 2025
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Spennymoor
- Agent
- Prism Planning
- ReceivedReceived19 Aug
- ValidatedValidated11 Sep
- Consult.Consultation22 Dec
- TargetTarget Date6 Nov
- DecidedDecided13 Jan
Decided in 124 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Low House Farm Middlestone Moor Spennymoor DL16 7QD. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Spennymoor. We hold 163 applications in total for the DL16 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
- DL16 7QD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Spennymoor
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 22 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 22 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 8 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 13 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Prism Planning
- Agent address
- S&A Fabrications Ltd Harmire Enterprise Park Barnard Castle County Durham DL12 8EH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 17 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 8 October 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14252587
- Documents
- 19
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.
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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Associated applications
- 202623 Jan
DIscharge of Conditions 3 to 8 (BNG requirements) pursuant to planning permission DM/25/02301/FPA
PendingDischarge of conditionsDM/26/00178/DRC - 202519 Aug
Erection of a general purpose livestock building
This applicationApprovedFullDM/25/02301/FPA
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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Contractors near this project
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- Dave Allan Fireplaces LimitedSolid Fuel Heating1.2 mi
- M G Electrics UK LtdElectrician1.4 mi
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