7 The Shopping Centre Holly Hill Gardens South Stanley Stanley DH9 6PF
Approved on 2 February 2026
Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track
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Proposal
Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to mixed use, first floor flat (C3) and ground floor retail shop (E(a)) including the installation of shop front and roller shutter and fenestration alterations to rear (retrospective)
- Received
- 8 October 2025
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Stanley
- ReceivedReceived8 Oct
- ValidatedValidated4 Dec
- Consult.Consultation25 Dec
- TargetTarget Date29 Jan
- DecidedDecided2 Feb
Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 7 The Shopping Centre Holly Hill Gardens South Stanley Stanley DH9 6PF. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 117 days, 9 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Stanley. We hold 1,473 applications in total for the DH9 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
- DH9 6PF
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stanley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 31 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 4 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 31 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 29 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 2 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- NorthEastArchitecturalPlans
- Agent address
- 38 Grasmere Terrace Hawkeys Lane North Shields NE29 0PW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 10 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 31 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14387998
- Documents
- 17
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.
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