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Land To The North Of A1290 Washington.
Hybrid Application comprising 442 dwellings (C3 use) including details of the means of access served from the A1290, earthworks, landscaping, public open space and drainage attenuation (full applicati
Crawcrook Quarry Crawcrook Lane Crawcrook NE40 3UL
Proposed restoration of the site through importing approximately 1.3 million cubic metres of inert materials (predominantly clays and soils from the Construction, Demolition and Excavation waste strea
18 Ernwill Avenue Sunderland SR5 3EB
Non-material amendment to previously approved application 26/00266/FUL (Erection of a single storey extension to side to provide garage) to change garage door to a window.
Land At Holly Avenue Houghton-le-Spring
In order to raise height of an overhead conductor, it is proposed to replace three poles on an existing line with taller poles.
Eye Infirmary Queen Alexandra Road Sunderland SR2 9HP
Proposed Demolition of the former hospital and ancillary infrastructure
18 Heathfield Sunderland SR2 9EW
Emergency Tree Works to remove Whitebeam which has no foliage and has fungus at the base and rootplate movement.
8 Midgley Drive Sunderland SR3 2RJ
Erection of rear single storey extension and garage conversion to include new pitched roof. Porch to front.
23 Granville Street Sunderland SR4 6BH
Retrospective application for change of use from dwelling (C3) to (C4) 6 bed 6 person HMO
8 Cairnside South Sunderland SR3 3LS
Erection of single storey extension to rear/side of existing dwelling
16 Stanhope Close Houghton-le-Spring DH4 5QR
Erection of a single storey rear extension
31 Lulsgate Sunderland SR5 3JY
Erection of a single storey rear extension. (Extends 4.05m from the original dwelling, 3.5m in height and 2.45m to the eaves).
Land At Castletown Way/Riverside Road Sunderland SR5 3JF
Discharge of condition 10 (Validation Report of Remediation) attached to planning application 14/00292/OUT for plots 67, 68, 70 to 73 and 85 to 89 Phase 3
18 Dilston Close Oxclose Washington NE38 0HD
Rear elevation single storey extension.
Unit 3 Holiday Inn Keel Square Sunderland SR1 3DS
Installation of new fascia signs, projecting sign and menu board
2 Felstead Crescent Sunderland SR4 0AE
Erection of a single storey extension to side
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When Sunderland City 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.
Sunderland City Council, raw rate
22.6%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
28.1%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
5.5 percentage points below expected. Sunderland City Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
272 appeals counted, 261 judged either way (59 allowed, 202 dismissed), 11 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 | 147 | 145 | 37 | 25.5% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 51 | 50 | 9 | 18% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 44 | 41 | 6 | 14.6% | 13.5% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 15 | 15 | 4 | 26.7% | 33.3% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 4 | 4 | 2 | Too few judged | 36.9% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 36% |
| High Hedges | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 28.5% |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Tree Preservation Order | 2 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
| Tree Replacement Notice | 2 | 2 | 1 | Too few judged | 31.9% |
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 8.1% |
“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.
Sunderland City 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.
Sunderland City 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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