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Bessemer Court Hownsgill Industrial Park Templetown DH8 7NU

DM/25/03424/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 21 April 2026

Council decision: Approved BNG RequiredDelegated (officer decision)10 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Temporary change of use of land to a use falling within Use Class B8 (Storage and Distribution) for the siting of shipping containers for self-storage hire

Received
9 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Delves Lane
Agent
Hedley Planning Services
  1. Received9 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Mar
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided21 Apr

Decided in 123 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Bessemer Court Hownsgill Industrial Park Templetown DH8 7NU. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Delves Lane. We hold 1,313 applications in total for the DH8 postcode area.

95% of full 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
DH8 7NU
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2025
Consultation expiry
28 March 2026
Consultation start
26 March 2026
Consultation end
28 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
9 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
30 January 2026
Last date for comments
15 March 2026
Target decision date
13 February 2026
Permission expires
21 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hedley Planning Services
Agent address
Floor 3 Maybrook House Grainger Street Newcastle Upon Tyne Tyne And Wear NE1 5JE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 February 2026
Site notice end
15 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14513091
Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

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