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Houghton Le Spring Golf Club Houghton Golf Course Gillas Lane Houghton-le-Spring DH5 8LU

15/01296/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 7 October 2015

Proposal

Erection of golf practice bays.

Received
23 June 2015
Ward
Copt Hill
  1. Received23 Jun
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.15 Sep
  4. Target9 Oct
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Houghton Le Spring Golf Club Houghton Golf Course Gillas Lane Houghton-le-Spring DH5 8LU. Sunderland has handled 694 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 8 weeks longer than Sunderland's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

92% of full 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 8LU
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2015
Consultation expiry
23 September 2015
Consultation start
25 August 2015
Consultation end
15 September 2015
Last date for comments
23 September 2015
Target decision date
9 October 2015
Permission expires
7 October 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 September 2015
Site notice end
23 September 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04295943
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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

Associated applications

  1. 2015
    19 Nov

    Discharge of condition 3 (materials) attached to planning application 15/01296/FUL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions15/02593/DDI
  2. 2015
    23 Jun

    Erection of golf practice bays.

    This applicationApprovedFull15/01296/FUL

Source: Sunderland

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