A NEW wedding venue will be coming to Tynedale. Members of the Tynedale Local Area Council on Tuesday (July 13) unanimously approved plans for a new wedding venue at Shildon, near Corbridge. Planning officers had recommended that the application should be granted. Planning permission had been sought for the change of use of the existing residential dwelling to guest accommodation, as well as a single-storey rear extension to form a wedding venue and to create 58 car parking spaces There will be a main function room, a ceremony room, and kitchen. The application had projected that the wedding venue operation would typically accommodate about 100 guests, though would be capable of accommodating up to 200 guests along with up to 45 members of staff.
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BATTLES over land use have hit a major charity donor in Durham city, a public inquiry has heard. The Durham City Freemen give hundreds of pounds to a range of good causes every year, with cash raised from its historic interests in the city. But bosses at the organisation, which is attempting to halt Durham County Council’s (DCC) plans for a car park on protected land at the Sands to serve its new £50 million HQ, claim disputes with the local authority have hampered its philanthropic efforts. “The land for the car park is a modest area of the wider Sands, the Freemen have common rites of grazing going back for centuries, and they have been recorded since at least 1860,” said Nicola Allen, a planning law specialist acting for the City of Durham Parish Council and the Freemen.
FAILURE to secure permission to build on protected land could cost county bosses £60,000 – with the possibility of further costs piled on top. Durham County Council has been defending its plans to build a car park for staff and councillors on the Sands, in Durham City, as part of its multi-million pound development of a new riverside HQ. Giving evidence to an independent government inspector, local authority chiefs admitted being turned down could land them with a five figure redesign bill, but would not be drawn on the potential for further financial hits. Mike Allum, the county council’s spatial policy manager, said: “It is a small proportion of the overall development costs.