Land To The East Of Stockton Road Seaham SR7 0PB
Approved on 6 February 2025
Council decision: EIA Not Required
Proposal
Request for Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 in respect of a proposed development of a ground mounted solar farm and associated infrastructure.
- Received
- 4 October 2024
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Seaham
- ReceivedReceived4 Oct
- ValidatedValidated4 Oct
- Consult.Consultation29 Oct
- TargetTarget Date25 Oct
- DecidedDecided6 Feb
Decided in 125 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land To The East Of Stockton Road Seaham SR7 0PB. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Seaham. We hold 619 applications in total for the SR7 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
- SR7 0PB
- Application type
- Screening Opinion
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Seaham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 29 October 2024
- Consultation start
- 8 October 2024
- Consultation end
- 29 October 2024
- Target decision date
- 25 October 2024
- Permission expires
- 6 February 2030
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: County Durham
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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