40 North Close Kirk Merrington Spennymoor DL16 7HH
Approved on 20 April 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
40 North Close Kirk Merrington Tree Preservation Order 2025
- Received
- 28 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Ferryhill
- ReceivedReceived28 Oct
- ValidatedValidated28 Oct
- Consult.Consultation2 Dec
- TargetTarget Date23 Dec
- DecidedDecided20 Apr
Decided in 174 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 40 North Close Kirk Merrington Spennymoor DL16 7HH. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 174 days, 17 weeks longer than Durham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Ferryhill. We hold 163 applications in total for the DL16 postcode area.
90% of trees 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
- DL16 7HH
- Application type
- Delegated Report for TPO
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Spennymoor
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 2 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 4 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 2 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 23 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 20 April 2031
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 0
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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
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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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