Middle Building King James I Academy South Church Road Bishop Auckland DL14 7JZ
Approved on 6 January 2026
Fast Track
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Proposal
Replace defective stone roof balusters and seatings with natural sandstone, repairs to chimney stack including removal of pot and cap off with coping stone
- Received
- 17 November 2025
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Bishop Auckland
- ReceivedReceived17 Nov
- ValidatedValidated18 Nov
- Consult.Consultation11 Dec
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided6 Jan
Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Middle Building King James I Academy South Church Road Bishop Auckland DL14 7JZ. Durham has handled 451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Bishop Auckland conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Bishop Auckland. We hold 447 applications in total for the DL14 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
- DL14 7JZ
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bishop Auckland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 20 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 11 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 18 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 6 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Eden Learning Trust
- Agent address
- Ferryhill School Merrington Road Ferryhill Durham DL17 8RW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 27 November 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 18 December 2025
- Site notice start
- 25 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 16 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14494074
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Bishop AucklandPart of the site
- 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 Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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Source: Durham
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