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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Durham County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,666 approved · 397 refused · 304 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jan 2015 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 18 Nov 2015Lanchester Garden Centre Bargate Bank Lanchester Durham DH7 0SS
Received 23 Nov 2015Longmeadow House Beamishburn Road Beamish Stanley DH9 0RL
Received 23 Nov 2015Lanchester Garden Centre Bargate Bank Lanchester Durham DH7 0SS
Received 23 Nov 2015Land To The Rear Of 7 And 8 Meadow Close Middleton-in-Teesdale County Durham DL12 0TW
Received 23 Nov 2015Land At The East Of Parklands Residential Care Home New Road Crook County Durham DL15 8LN
Received 23 Nov 2015Greenbank Seaton Lane Seaton Seaham SR7 0LT
Received 19 Nov 2015Barn At Briar Dykes Hury Barnard Castle DL12 9UU
Received 23 Nov 20152 Reservoir Terrace Stanley Crook Crook County Durham DL15 9RX
Received 24 Nov 2015Land At The Rear Of Eldersfield Green Lane Barnard Castle DL12 8LE
Received 24 Nov 2015Berry Edge South Abbotts Way Consett
Received 26 Nov 201525 Oswald Court Durham DH1 3DH
Received 27 Nov 2015Hurworth Burn Farm Wingate TS28 5NP
Received 27 Nov 201517 Holyrood Great Lumley Chester-le-street DH3 4LY
Received 30 Nov 2015Mount Oswald (Phase 1) South Road Durham DH1 3TQ
Received 1 Dec 2015St Giles Service Station Gilesgate Durham DH1 1JA
Received 2 Dec 2015Harehill Farm Haswell Plough Durham DH6 2BA
Received 3 Dec 2015Red Hill Villas Durham DH1 4AY
Received 3 Dec 2015Land At And Adjacent To Palace Green Durham DH1 3RL
Received 3 Dec 2015Land Adjoining Snook Acres Front Street Witton Gilbert DH7 6SY
Received 4 Dec 2015Land East Of Agnew Community Centre And North Of Woodham Way Newton Aycliffe
Received 7 Dec 2015Site Of Former Durham County Council Offices Seaside Lane Easington Village SR8 3TN
Received 4 Dec 2015Land To The South Of Eden Drive Sedgefield
Received 9 Dec 2015The White Swan Bridge End Startforth Barnard Castle County Durham DL12 9BE
Received 8 Dec 2015Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Durham County Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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