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5 Harewood Hill Darlington DL3 7HY
Listed Building Consent for the removal of a secondary staircase between the first and second floors, modifications to internal door openings and partition walls including the formation of new doorway
41 Bates Avenue Darlington DL3 0TL
Prior Approval for the erection of a single storey rear extension projecting 3.375m from the original dwelling house, 3.9m in height to ridge and 2.90m in height to eaves
58 Duke Street Darlington DL3 7AN
Prior Approval application for the change of use of the building from Commercial, Business and Service (Vets) (Use Class E) to a 6 no. bed residential dwelling house (Use Class C3)
16 Crossfield Road Darlington DL3 0TR
Erection of a single storey rear infill extension (Retrospective Application)
17 Mill Lane Redworth NEWTON AYCLIFFE DL5 6NP
Application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for the variation of Condition 3 (approved plans) attached to planning permission 26/00134//FUL dated 30 March 26 (Altera
27 Elmfield Road Hurworth Darlington DL2 2JJ
Application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for the variation of condition 2 (approved plans) attached to planning permission 26/00079/FUL dated 25 March 26 (Demolit
Thorn Villa Timmys Lane Hurworth Darlington
Non-Material Amendment of Planning Permission (23/00987/FUL) dated 8 February 2024 (Demolition of the existing dwelling, barn, stables, outbuildings, and erection of 1 no. wheelchair accessible detach
St Cuthbert's Retail Park Russell Street Darlington
Siting of 1 No. InPost parcel locker to north of retail park (Retrospective Application)
Land At Cobby Castle Forge And Livery Cobby Castle Lane Bishopton DARLINGTON TS21 1HD
Prior approval for the erection of 1 No. agricultural building for general agricultural purposes including the storage of hay and housing of sheep (Agricultural Determination)
Grange House Polam Hall School Grange Road Blackwell Darlington DL1 5PA
Works to various trees, including the felling of 4 No. trees (1 No. Juniper T307, 1 No. Holly T325, 1 No. Pine T410 & 1 No. Beech T421) protected under Tree Preservation Order 1970 (No.2) - As per sub
Morrisons Petrol Filling Station Morrisons Supermarket 97 North Road Darlington
Siting of an InPost Parcel Locker to the south elevation of the car wash (Retrospective Application)
Burtree Garden Village Phase 1 Burtree Lane Darlington
Approval of details reserved by condition 96 (archaeology post investigation) attached to planning permission 22/01342/FULE dated 31 Jan 2025 (Burtree Garden Village)
16A Pierremont Crescent Darlington DL3 9PB
Erection of conservatory to rear of dwelling
Barclays 27 High Row Darlington DL3 7QW
Listed Building Consent (curtilage listed) for repairs and reconstruction of chimney stack and associated localised roof repairs to the Coach House
25 Glaisdale Court Darlington DL3 7AD
Proposed operation of a motorhome hire business from a residential dwelling, including the parking and storage of up to 3 no. motorhomes (Retrospective Application)
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When Darlington Borough Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Darlington Borough Council, raw rate
23.5%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
28.6%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
5.1 percentage points below expected. Darlington Borough Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
123 appeals counted, 119 judged either way (28 allowed, 91 dismissed), 4 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 75 | 74 | 14 | 18.9% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 18 | 17 | 8 | 47.1% | 35.6% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 13 | 13 | 1 | 7.7% | 20.6% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 40% | 33.3% |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20% | 27.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 4 | 4 | 2 | Too few judged | 13.5% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 36% |
| Environmental | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 25% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Darlington Borough Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Darlington Borough Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Darlington Borough Council planning portal.
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.
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