Arnold Clark Birtley Motorstore Portobello Road Birtley DH3 2SN
Approved on 7 February 2025
Council decision: No ObservationsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Erection of new substation and LV cabinet to the North West of the site.
- Received
- 5 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Feb
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date26 Feb
- DecidedDecided7 Feb
Decided in 2 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Arnold Clark Birtley Motorstore Portobello Road Birtley DH3 2SN. Sunderland has handled 141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 2 days, 7 weeks quicker than Sunderland's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 670 applications in total for the DH3 postcode area.
96% of outline 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
- DH3 2SN
- Application type
- Consultation with Adjoining Authority
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 26 February 2025
- Permission expires
- 7 February 2030
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Comments
- 0
- Documents
- 0
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Source: Sunderland
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