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Land To The North East Of School House Front Street North Cassop DH6 4RJ

DM/25/02892/HRNHedgerow Removal NoticeRefused

Refused on 21 November 2025

Council decision: Raise ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Removal of 9m hedgerow to re-open existing gateway to provide access to the arable field

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bowburn And Coxhoe
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.12 Nov
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided21 Nov

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land To The North East Of School House Front Street North Cassop DH6 4RJ. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Bowburn And Coxhoe. We hold 1,180 applications in total for the DH6 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
DH6 4RJ
Application type
Hedgerow Removal Notice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cassop-cum-Quarrington

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Consultation expiry
26 November 2025
Consultation start
12 November 2025
Consultation end
12 November 2025
Last date for comments
26 November 2025
Target decision date
25 November 2025
Permission expires
21 November 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Vickers & Barrass
Agent address
16/17 Castle Bank Tow Law Bishop Auckland County Durham DL13 4AE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 November 2025
Site notice end
26 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14409269
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Durham

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