Olive Lodge Station Lane Pelton Fell Chester-le-Street DH2 2RL
Refused on 16 January 2026
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
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Proposal
Certificate of proposed use of a dwelling house (Class C3) as a Children's Home (Class C2) occupied by a maximum of 3 children (under 18 years of age), living together where care is provided for them on a rota basis, including sleeping overnight
- Received
- 17 November 2025
- Decision level
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Pelton
- Agent
- Prism Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived17 Nov
- ValidatedValidated18 Nov
- Consult.Consultation21 Nov
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided16 Jan
Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Olive Lodge Station Lane Pelton Fell Chester-le-Street DH2 2RL. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Pelton. We hold 1,688 applications in total for the DH2 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
- DH2 2RL
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Opera
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 20 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 21 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 January 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Prism Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- Sleepy Hollow Farm Seamer Road Maltby Middlesbrough TS8 0AU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14494648
- Documents
- 27
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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201919 Dec
Erection of detached, two storey granny annex to the side
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/19/03920/FPA - 201924 Jun
Timber gazebo to west elevation
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/19/02006/FPA - 20176 Jun
Erection of a 1.8m vertical boarded fence and increase the width of the existing vehicular access gate by 1m
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationDM/17/01871/FPA
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