5 High Row Woodstone Village Houghton-le-Spring DH4 6BD
Approved on 25 March 2026
Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track2 conditions
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Proposal
Dropped kerb
- Received
- 20 January 2026
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Lumley And West Rainton
- ReceivedReceived20 Jan
- ValidatedValidated27 Jan
- Consult.Consultation18 Mar
- TargetTarget Date24 Mar
- DecidedDecided25 Mar
Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 5 High Row Woodstone Village Houghton-le-Spring DH4 6BD. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Lumley And West Rainton. We hold 167 applications in total for the DH4 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
- DH4 6BD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Little Lumley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 18 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 18 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 23 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 24 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 25 March 2029
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14635558
- Documents
- 11
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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