1 Dene Street Hetton-le-Hole Houghton-le-Spring DH5 9AX
Refused on 7 January 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from a single residential unit (currently Use Class C3 dwellinghouse) to also allow for the use as care/supported living accommodation for up to two people (Use Class C2 - for under 18s) - with no physical or external alterations.
- Received
- 8 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Copt Hill
- ReceivedReceived8 Oct
- ValidatedValidated15 Oct
- Consult.Consultation8 Nov
- TargetTarget Date7 Jan
- DecidedDecided7 Jan
Decided in 84 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 1 Dene Street Hetton-le-Hole Houghton-le-Spring DH5 9AX. Sunderland has handled 694 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 6 weeks longer 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.
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 9AX
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Hetton Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 29 November 2024
- Consultation start
- 18 October 2024
- Consultation end
- 8 November 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 October 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 November 2024
- Last date for comments
- 29 November 2024
- Target decision date
- 7 January 2025
- Committee meeting
- 6 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- C/O APPLICANT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 84 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 November 2024
- Site notice end
- 29 November 2024
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13458992
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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Source: Sunderland
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