15 Woodlands Road Shotley Bridge Consett DH8 0DB
Approved on 14 November 2025
Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Retention of summerhouse/outbuilding within side/front garden.
- Received
- 1 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Benfieldside
- ReceivedReceived1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Sep
- Consult.Consultation30 Sep
- TargetTarget Date28 Oct
- DecidedDecided14 Nov
Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 15 Woodlands Road Shotley Bridge Consett DH8 0DB. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Benfieldside. We hold 1,314 applications in total for the DH8 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
- DH8 0DB
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 30 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 9 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 30 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 14 November 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Forsyth Technical
- Agent address
- West Side Apartment Whickham Park Whickham Newcastle Upon Tyne Tyne And Wear NE16 4EH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14272837
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
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.
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