The Chorister School The College Durham DH1 3EL
Approved on 26 November 2025
Fast Track
Proposal
Replacement of 3no existing timber windows
- Received
- 3 October 2025
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Elvet, Gilesgate And Shincliffe
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated6 Oct
- Consult.Consultation5 Nov
- TargetTarget Date1 Dec
- DecidedDecided26 Nov
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application for window replacement at The Chorister School The College Durham DH1 3EL. Durham has handled 451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in the Durham City conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 120 applications across Elvet, Gilesgate And Shincliffe. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the DH1 postcode area.
95% of heritage 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
- DH1 3EL
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- City Of Durham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 13 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 15 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 5 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 1 December 2025
- Decision issued
- 27 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 27 November 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Howarth Litchfield
- Architect profile
- HOWARTH LITCHFIELD PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
- Agent address
- Liddon House Belmont Business Park Bishop Auckland Co. Durham Durham DH1 1TW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 23 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 13 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 23 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 13 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14342186
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Durham City
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, 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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© 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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Source: Durham
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