Former Easington Lane Primary School South Hetton Road Easington Lane Houghton-le-Spring DH5 0LQ
Approved on 2 May 2019
Planning committee
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Proposal
Erection of 116no dwellings including access, public open space, parking provision, hard and soft landscaping and associated infrastructure.
- Received
- 6 November 2018
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Hetton
- ReceivedReceived6 Nov
- ValidatedValidated9 Nov
- Consult.Consultation23 Apr
- TargetTarget Date31 May
- DecidedDecided2 May
Decided in 174 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Former Easington Lane Primary School South Hetton Road Easington Lane Houghton-le-Spring DH5 0LQ. Sunderland has handled 694 applications of this type. This one was decided in 177 days, 18 weeks longer than Sunderland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Hetton. 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 0LQ
- Application type
- Full Application (Reg 4)
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 116
- Parish
- Hetton Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 November 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 23 April 2019
- Consultation start
- 2 April 2019
- Consultation end
- 23 April 2019
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 November 2018
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 December 2018
- Last date for comments
- 20 December 2018
- Target decision date
- 31 May 2019
- Committee meeting
- 16 April 2019
- Permission expires
- 2 May 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr James Litherland Eastgate 2 Castle Street Castlefield Manchester M3 4LZ UK
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 203 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 November 2018
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 December 2018
- Site notice start
- 29 November 2018
- Site notice end
- 20 December 2018
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-07388965
- Documents
- 107
- Constraints
- 12
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: Former Easington Lane Primary School BuildingRegister 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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