Land Off A690/ Mercantile Road Rainton Meadows Houghton Le Spring
Refused on 10 December 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Discharge of condition 18 (Highways 2 - Detailed Design (Pre occup)) attached to 23/02501/FU4 (Part 3 of 3)
- Received
- 3 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Hetton
- ReceivedReceived3 Nov
- ValidatedValidated3 Nov
- Consult.Consultation27 Nov
- TargetTarget Date31 Dec
- DecidedDecided10 Dec
Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Land Off A690/ Mercantile Road Rainton Meadows Houghton Le Spring. Sunderland has handled 632 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker than Sunderland's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Hetton.
81% of conditions 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
- Application type
- Discharge of Planning Condition(s)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hetton Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 6 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 27 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 31 December 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 58 days
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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202513 Aug
Discharge of condition 4 (CEMP) attached to planning application 23/02501/FU4
PendingDischarge of conditions25/01824/DIS - 202531 Jan
Discharge of condition 8 (Tree Protection) attached to planning application 23/02501/FU4
PendingDischarge of conditions25/00224/DIS - 202531 Jan
Discharge of condiition 11 (Tree removal) attached to planning application 23/02501/FU4
PendingDischarge of conditions25/00232/DIS
Source: Sunderland
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