Lambton Park Development Site At Former County Show Ground Chester Road Bournmoor DH3 4DX

DM/25/03350/NMANon Material AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 December 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Non-material Amendment Application to amend the description of development pursuant to DM/15/02714/OUT (as amended by DM/25/00952/NMA).

Received: 1 December 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Durham County Council
Ward: Lumley And West Rainton

ReceivedReceived1 Dec
ValidatedValidated2 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date30 Dec
DecidedDecided9 Dec

Decided in 7 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Lambton Park Development Site At Former County Show Ground Chester Road Bournmoor DH3 4DX. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 7 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 13 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Lumley And West Rainton. We hold 670 applications in total for the DH3 postcode area.

96% of amendment 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: DH3 4DX
Application type: Non Material Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Bournmoor

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 December 2025
Target decision date: 30 December 2025
Permission expires: 9 December 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent: Lichfields
Agent address: Saint Nicholas Building, Lichfields Saint Nicholas Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 1RF

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14514338
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Green belt: County Durham
Registered park and garden: Lambton Castle
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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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© 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.

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

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Discharge of condition 27 (phasing statement) pursuant to DM/15/02714/OUT
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2 Dec
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9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Durham

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