Westlea Primary School Winslow Crescent Seaham SR7 8JU
Approved on 5 December 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredFast Track
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Proposal
Prior Approval for the installation of solar panels on the roofs of Westlea Primary School, Seaham.
- Received
- 10 October 2025
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Seaham
- ReceivedReceived10 Oct
- ValidatedValidated17 Oct
- Consult.Consultation13 Nov
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided5 Dec
Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Westlea Primary School Winslow Crescent Seaham SR7 8JU. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Seaham. We hold 619 applications in total for the SR7 postcode area.
89% of outline 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
- SR7 8JU
- Application type
- Prior Approval Scenarios
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Seaham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 13 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 23 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 23 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 13 November 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
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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