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Land North West Of Witton Hall Farm Coach Lane Witton Gilbert DH7 6SU

DM/25/03376/PNAPrior Notification AgricultureApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 December 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval is RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior notification under Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A for the construction of a farm machinery workshop for maintenance, repair break down and service of farm machinery general storage implements parts and farming tools. Work bench machines etc.

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sacriston And Witton Gilbert
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land North West Of Witton Hall Farm Coach Lane Witton Gilbert DH7 6SU. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Sacriston And Witton Gilbert. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the DH7 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
DH7 6SU
Application type
Prior Notification Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Witton Gilbert

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2025
Consultation expiry
2 January 2026
Consultation start
12 December 2025
Consultation end
2 January 2026
Target decision date
29 December 2025
Permission expires
23 December 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Park Nook Farm Beamish Stanley DH9 0QS

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    14 Apr

    Prior notification under Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A for the construction of a farm machinery workshop for…

    PendingPrior ApprovalRelatedDM/26/01040/PA56
  2. 2025
    2 Dec

    Prior notification under Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A for the construction of a farm machinery workshop for…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineDM/25/03376/PNA

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