The Signal Report
Your Planning Signal: 10 Orchard Drive Durham DH1 1LA, single-storey rear extension
Durham County Council · DH1 1LA · applications received Oct 2021 to Oct 2026 · generated 6 Oct 2026
What happened near you
Planning applications for single-storey rear extensions received Oct 2021 to Oct 2026, within 500 m of this address.
0
decided applications
One planning application for single-storey rear extensions within 500 m, none decided yet. 1 is undecided.
Past decisions describe what happened to other applications. They are not a prediction for yours: every application is decided on its own design and the council's current policies.
Durham County Council: single-storey rear extensions
All of the council's planning applications for single-storey rear extensions received Oct 2021 to Oct 2026 that we hold.
- Approved
- 229 of 232
- 99% of decided applications; 8 withdrawn, 169 undecided
- Typical time to a decision
- 64 days
- median, from 232 decisions with both dates published
- Decided within 8 weeks
- 58 of 232
- 8 weeks is the usual statutory period; councils can agree extensions
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Durham City
- 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 (18)
listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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Your property's planning history
We hold 1 planning application at this property. The full report lists it.
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About this report
This report summarises public planning records and official open data. It is not legal advice, not a planning search for conveyancing, and not a prediction of any decision. Councils decide each application on its own merits and their current policies. Check with the council (most offer pre-application advice) or a planning professional before you rely on it.
Location: the address as the council geocoded it on its application; it can be a few metres out.
Planning applications: councils' public planning registers, collected by Planning Signal.
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