Land To The East Of Willow Cottage Summerhill Shotley Bridge DH8 6SF
Approved on 10 April 2026
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
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Proposal
Lawful Development Certificate for the proposed installation of new 2.4m palisade fence and access gate to the site. New fence will be installed on NGN Owned and operated land.
- Received
- 26 January 2026
- Decision level
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Derwent And Pont Valley
- ReceivedReceived26 Jan
- ValidatedValidated13 Feb
- Consult.Consultation3 Mar
- TargetTarget Date10 Apr
- DecidedDecided10 Apr
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land To The East Of Willow Cottage Summerhill Shotley Bridge DH8 6SF. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Derwent And Pont Valley. We hold 1,313 applications in total for the DH8 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).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DH8 6SF
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed Opera
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 23 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 2 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 3 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 23 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 10 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 10 April 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Northern Gas Networks
- Agent address
- 1100 Century Way Colton Leeds LS15 8TU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14625687
- Documents
- 16
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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Source: Durham
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