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Brackenhill House Shotton Colliery Durham DH6 2RA

DM/26/00360/CEUCertificate of Lawfulness Existing UseRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 13 April 2026

Certificate of Lawfulness Existing

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development under Section 191 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to confirm that the planning permission for six detached dwellings at Brackenhill House, Shotton Colliery, Durham DH6 2RA (outline reference CE/13/00862/OUT, appeal ref APP/X1355/W/15/3022942, reserved matters ref DM/18/02928/RM, and discharge of conditions ref DRC/18/00054) was lawfully commenced and remains extant.

Received
13 February 2026
Decision level
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
Ward
Easington And Shotton
Agent
Carter Smith Planning Consultants
  1. Received13 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.11 Mar
  4. Target13 Apr
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Brackenhill House Shotton Colliery Durham DH6 2RA. Durham has handled 488 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Easington And Shotton. We hold 1,180 applications in total for the DH6 postcode area.

96% of amendment 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
DH6 2RA
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shotton

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2026
Consultation expiry
11 March 2026
Consultation start
18 February 2026
Consultation end
11 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
18 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
11 March 2026
Last date for comments
11 March 2026
Target decision date
13 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Carter Smith Planning Consultants
Agent address
Morpeth Business Hub 17A Coopies Haugh Coopies Lane Morpeth NE61 6JN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14704025
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Local nature reserve: Bracken Hill WoodNext to the site
  • 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 (21)

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, 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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