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Station Hotel Morton Crescent Fence Houses Houghton-le-Spring DH4 6AD

25/02855/CAAConsultation with Adjoining AuthorityApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 January 2026

Council decision: ResponseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing buildings and construction of two new retail units with associated car parking, landscaping and access. (Amendments received)

Received
9 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received9 Dec
  2. Validated9 Dec
  3. Consult.8 Jan
  4. Target30 Dec
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Station Hotel Morton Crescent Fence Houses Houghton-le-Spring DH4 6AD. Sunderland has handled 141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Sunderland's typical decision time. There have been 7 other applications at this address. We hold 167 applications in total for the DH4 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
DH4 6AD
Application type
Consultation with Adjoining Authority
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 December 2025
Consultation expiry
8 January 2026
Consultation start
18 December 2025
Consultation end
8 January 2026
Last date for comments
8 January 2026
Target decision date
30 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
0
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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