Cookes West Wood Alum Waters New Brancepeth DH7 7JP Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Use of the site as a composite use for the purposes of agriculture, forestry, and land-based operations; a vegetable box scheme, craft and education courses, together with the construction and residential occupation of dwellings (use class C3) and other residential structures available to, and occupied by, persons by reason of and for so long as they are engaged in that use together with their families; such structures being identified on the annexed plan and schedule and marked thereon in green comprising: Houses 1, 2 and 3, the Yurt, the Well, and the Geodome, together with the use of further structures, identified on the annexed plan and schedule and marked thereon in yellow comprising: the Tunnel, the two Caravans, the Field Shelter, the Hen House, the Compost Toilet, the two Timber Stores, the Tool Shed, and the Summerhouse, being either incidental or ancillary to the said use where stated and including the accommodation on a transient basis of volunteers and visitors engaged in or assisting with that use, but excluding any use of the structures numbered [014] Tool Shed and [015] Summerhouse otherwise than as operational development by s171B(1), such composite use, taken as a whole, not falling within any use class specified in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended) and being accordingly a sui generis use and Operational Development: The erection of the operational development identified in the Buildings Schedule hereto and marked thereon [1] to [15] at their respective locations on the plan. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Under consideration
No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 30 Nov 2026, from Durham's recent agricultural works.
Documents 9
Statements & assessments 1
Other documents 8
Site constraints 8
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Important details
- Council
- Durham
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness Existing Use
- Postcode
- DH7 7JP
- Received
- 7 Oct 2026
- Validated
- 8 Oct 2026
- Ward
- Deerness
- Parish
- Brandon And Byshottles
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 3 Dec 2026
- Appeal
- Dismissed · 6 May 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6004274 ↗
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- Premise Planning
Decision outlook
Day 20 of the 56-day target. Durham usually decides agricultural works by day 53.
Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Durham in the last twelve months, from validation. Durham decision record →
Public comments
No public comments yet.
20 neighbours consulted · Last counted 21 Oct 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Alt. reference
- PP-15274962
- Planning Portal ref
- PP-15274962
- Neighbours
- 13 Oct 2026
- Consultation
- 13 Oct 2026
- Comments by
- 5 Nov 2026
- Site or press notice
- 15 Oct 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 3 Dec 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
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