Lanchester Primary School Front Street Lanchester Durham DH7 0HU

DM/26/02877/TCAApproved

Approved on 5 November 2026

Council decision: Raise No Objection

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

T1 - Common ash - Remove deadwood T2 - Common ash - Fell to ground level. G2 Common ash - group (3 trees) - Remove 1 heavily leaning ash to ground level. Remove deadwood from the other 2 trees. Works updated by client instruction. G3 Mixed broadleaves - group - Monolith / fell the 3 trees marked with orange paint. Priority 1. Individual positions not shown. T3 - Wild cherry - Fell to ground level. T4 - Rowan - Fell to ground level. T5 - Common ash - Remove deadwood T6 - Common ash - Fell to ground level. T7 - Sycamore - Remove deadwood. T8 - Common ash - Remove deadwood. T9 - Dead ash (boundary) - Remove to ground level. Section 211 notice

Received: 27 October 2026
Public comments: 0 · last counted 7 November 2026
Council: Durham County Council

ReceivedReceived27 Oct
ValidatedValidated27 Oct
Consult.Consultation19 Nov
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided5 Nov

Decided in 9 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Lanchester Primary School Front Street Lanchester Durham DH7 0HU. Durham has handled 18,343 applications of this type. This one was decided in 9 days, 7 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Lanchester conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the DH7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: DH7 0HU

Planning application dates

Date validated: 27 October 2026
Consultation end: 19 November 2026

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Lanchester
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, 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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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.

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.

Source: Durham

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