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Land To The West Of Holland Hall Farm Park Street Willington DL15 0SR

SCR/24/00017Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 November 2024

Council decision: EIA Not Required

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 in respect of a proposed solar farm and co-located battery energy storage system

Received
14 October 2024
Ward
Willington and Hunwick
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.31 Oct
  4. Target4 Nov
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land To The West Of Holland Hall Farm Park Street Willington DL15 0SR. Durham has handled 1,089 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 5 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 698 applications in total for the DL15 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
DL15 0SR
Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Greater Willington

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2024
Consultation expiry
31 October 2024
Consultation start
30 October 2024
Consultation end
31 October 2024
Target decision date
4 November 2024
Permission expires
6 November 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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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© 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.

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