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Blanchland Shop And Post Office The Square Blanchland Consett Northumberland DH8 9SR

26/01351/LBCApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 4 June 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for installation of new fibre equipment to provide the Post Office and The Gallery access to full fibre broadband

Received
15 April 2026
  1. Received15 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Jun

Decided in 48 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Blanchland Shop And Post Office The Square Blanchland Consett Northumberland DH8 9SR. Northumberland (County) has handled 16,720 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in the Blanchland conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,313 applications in total for the DH8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
DH8 9SR

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2026
Consultation end
4 June 2026

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Blanchland
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1 and 2, the SquareOn this site · +11 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Pennines
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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, 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Northumberland (County)

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