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Lanchester Dairies Upper Houses Farm Yeckhouse Lane Lanchester Durham DH7 0RL

DM/26/00149/FPAFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 23 April 2026

Council decision: Approved BNG Not RequiredFast Track4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Single storey electrical switchroom

Received
20 January 2026
Decision level
Fast Track
Ward
Lanchester And Burnhope
Agent
Milbank Architects
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.9 Mar
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Lanchester Dairies Upper Houses Farm Yeckhouse Lane Lanchester Durham DH7 0RL. Durham has handled 11,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Lanchester And Burnhope. We hold 1,248 applications in total for the DH7 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
DH7 0RL
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lanchester

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2026
Consultation expiry
11 March 2026
Consultation start
16 February 2026
Consultation end
9 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
16 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
9 March 2026
Last date for comments
11 March 2026
Target decision date
9 April 2026
Permission expires
23 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Milbank Architects
Architect profile
MILBANK ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address
Bradley Lodge North Road Flint Hill Stanley DH9 9BB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 February 2026
Site notice end
11 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
24

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

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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.

© 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
    23 Sep

    Discharge of Condition 4 (Tree Planting) pursuant to planning permission DM/26/00149/FPA

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDM/26/02371/DRC
  2. 2026
    20 Jan

    Single storey electrical switchroom

    This applicationApprovedFullDM/26/00149/FPA

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