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Castle View Church Street Bishop Middleham Ferryhill DL17 9AQ

DM/25/02363/TCATrees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 7 October 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionTPO/S211 (No objection)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Willow - remove dead wood and reduce size and spread of crown by 2-3m to reduce imbalance and asymmetry, T2 - Weeping Ash - remove all dead wood, T3 - Sycamore - remove 2no rubbing branch and dead wood, T4 - Beech - crown lift and dead wood, T5 - Sycamore - dead wood and crown lift off pond area, T6 - Sycamore - dead wood and remove large hanger, G1 - dead wood, lateral prune of higher branches and crown lift off road side plus clearing of windthrown Horse Chestnut - T7 and T8 - Cherry - pruning of snapped limb (amended description)

Received
26 August 2025
Decision level
TPO/S211 (No objection)
Ward
Sedgefield
  1. Received26 Aug
  2. Validated27 Aug
  3. Consult.23 Sep
  4. Target8 Oct
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Castle View Church Street Bishop Middleham Ferryhill DL17 9AQ. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop Middleham conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Sedgefield. We hold 282 applications in total for the DL17 postcode area.

90% of trees 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
DL17 9AQ
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishop Middleham

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 August 2025
Consultation expiry
23 September 2025
Consultation start
2 September 2025
Consultation end
23 September 2025
Target decision date
8 October 2025
Decision issued
8 October 2025
Permission expires
8 October 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 1 Inkerman Road Tow Law DL13 4QB

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14280333
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bishop Middleham
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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, Heritage at Risk entries, 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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© 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.

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