Whitworth Parish Church Whitworth Spennymoor DL16 7QX
Approved on 23 January 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Discharge of condition 3 (archaeology reporting) pursuant to Planning Permission DM/22/00279/FPA and Listed Building Consent DM/22/00280/LB.
- Received
- 3 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Spennymoor
- Agent
- Hugh Massey Architects
- ReceivedReceived3 Dec
- ValidatedValidated4 Dec
- Consult.Consultation22 Jan
- TargetTarget Date29 Jan
- DecidedDecided23 Jan
Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Whitworth Parish Church Whitworth Spennymoor DL16 7QX. Durham has handled 1,532 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitworth conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Spennymoor. We hold 163 applications in total for the DL16 postcode area.
100% of conditions 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
- DL16 7QX
- Application type
- Details Reserved by Condition
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Spennymoor
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 22 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 8 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 22 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 29 January 2026
- Decision issued
- 26 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 26 January 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hugh Massey Architects
- Agent address
- MILE House Bridge End Chester-le-Street DH3 3RA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14538367
- Documents
- 3
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Whitworth
- 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, 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.
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.
Source: Durham
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