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Holley Cottage Holley Park Primary School House Ayton Road Washington NE38 0LR

25/02323/FU4Full Application (Reg 4)Approved
Full

Approved on 28 January 2026

Delegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Proposal

Change of use from class C3 (dwelling house) to F1 (learning and non-residential institutions) to be used for office, meeting, teaching and storage space.

Received
9 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Washington South
  1. Received9 Oct
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Holley Cottage Holley Park Primary School House Ayton Road Washington NE38 0LR. Sunderland has handled 694 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 9 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 Washington South. We hold 227 applications in total for the NE38 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
NE38 0LR
Application type
Full Application (Reg 4)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2025
Consultation expiry
13 February 2026
Consultation start
23 January 2026
Consultation end
13 February 2026
Last date for comments
1 January 2026
Target decision date
28 January 2026
Permission expires
28 January 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 December 2025
Site notice end
1 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14343164
Documents
11
Constraints
9

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.

Source: Sunderland

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