Planning application
Witton Le Wear Methodist Church School Street Witton-le-wear Bishop Auckland DL14 0AS
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Change of use of vacant Methodist Church (F1) to a single residential dwelling (C3)
As published by the council, reference DM/26/01748/FPA
Application record
- Reference
- DM/26/01748/FPA
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Pending Consideration
- Received
- 7 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 7 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Crook
- Parish
- Witton-le-Wear
- Decision by
- Delegated
- Postcode
- DL14 0AS
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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7 Jul 2026
Received by County Durham
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20 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 1 September 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
County Durham took a median of 58 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
DH Drawings Ltd Agent
90 applications on PlanIndex · across 4 councils · 98% granted
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
34 documents on file for this application
- VELUX CONSERVATION ROOF WINDOW GGL
- VIRIDIAN SOLAR CLEARLINE FUSION
- EXISTING AND PROPOSED EXTERNAL 3D VIEWS
- PROPOSED NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS
- PROPOSED EAST AND WEST ELEVATIONS
- HERITAGE STATEMENT V3
- 12 SCHOOL STREET
- SITE NOTICE
- PLANNING POLICY TEAM
- PRESS NOTICE
- 10 SCHOOL STREET, WITTON-LE-WEAR, BISHOP AUCKLAND DL14 0AS-NEUTRAL-MR ALISTAIR F
- BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY ASSESSMENT V1
- CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT PLAN V1
- INTERNAL SPACE STANDARDS ASSESSMENT
- POLICY 6 SUPPORTING STATEMENT
- YALPAG ASSESSMENT FORM
- SUPPORTING PHOTOS
- YALPAG SUPPORTING STATEMENT
- BAT SURVEY
- HISTORIC BUILDING RECORDING 1 OF 3
- EXISTING LOWER GROUND AND GROUND FLOOR LAYOUTS
- EXISTING NORTH AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS
- EXISTING EAST AND WEST ELEVATIONS
- EXISTING SECTIONS
- PROPOSED LOWER GROUND FLOOR LAYOUT
- PROPOSED GROUND AND MEZZANINE FLOOR LAYOUTS
- PROPOSED SECTIONS
- EXISTING AND PROPOSED BLOCK PLAN
- PROPOSED ISOMETRIC FLOOR PLANS
- BNG EXEMPTION STATEMENT V1
- APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED
- LOCATIONPLAN
- HISTORIC BUILDING RECORDING 2 OF 3
- HISTORIC BUILDING RECORDING 3 OF 3
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
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