Durham Gilesgate Primary School Kepier Crescent Gilesgate Moor Durham DH1 1PH
Withdrawn on 1 December 2025
Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior notification under Class J of Part 14 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the installation of solar PVs on school roofs.
- Received
- 13 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Belmont
- ReceivedReceived13 Oct
- ValidatedValidated17 Oct
- Consult.Consultation12 Nov
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided1 Dec
Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Durham Gilesgate Primary School Kepier Crescent Gilesgate Moor Durham DH1 1PH. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 49 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Belmont. We hold 1,246 applications in total for the DH1 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
- DH1 1PH
- Application type
- Prior Approval Scenarios
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Belmont
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 22 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 12 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 22 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 31 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 21 November 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 12
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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