1-31 Thomas Street Hetton le Hole Houghton-Le-Spring DH5 9ED
Approved on 30 September 2008
Council decision: ObservationsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Demolish derelict buildings to ground level, sites to then be tracked level, topsoiled and seeded.
- Received
- 1 September 2008
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Copt Hill
- ReceivedReceived1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Sep
- Consult.Consultation25 Sep
- TargetTarget Date30 Sep
- DecidedDecided30 Sep
Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a planning application at 1-31 Thomas Street Hetton le Hole Houghton-Le-Spring DH5 9ED. Sunderland has handled 74 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Sunderland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Copt Hill. We hold 99 applications in total for the DH5 postcode area.
89% of all applications at Sunderland City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DH5 9ED
- Application type
- Notice of Demolition
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hetton Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 September 2008
- Consultation expiry
- 30 September 2008
- Consultation start
- 11 September 2008
- Consultation end
- 25 September 2008
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 September 2008
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 September 2008
- Last date for comments
- 30 September 2008
- Target decision date
- 30 September 2008
- Permission expires
- 30 September 2013
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO Mr Derek Welsh Housing Services Civic Centre Burdon Road Sunderland SR2 7DN
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 16 September 2008
- Site notice end
- 30 September 2008
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: Hetton Downs Phase 2Register site at or near this address
- 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, 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 and heritage coasts.
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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Source: Sunderland
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