Durham County Council has received a resubmitted planning application for a residential development at High Hesleden.
The original application for 18 houses on the site of Cracknell's haulage business in the village was withdrawn in November 2011 in the face of considerable opposition from residents. The current application, reduced to a proposed development of 9 houses, is to be determined by the council's planning committee at some point in the future.
I have made contact with residents in High Hesleden and I will be meeting with them later this week to discuss their initial feelings and to consider options in dealing with this application.
For further details of the application go to the council's planning portal at:
planning.easington.gov.uk and enter the code for this application (PL/5/2012/0437) in the "application search"
I will update on this application on this site in due course but in the meantime please let me know if you have any comments you wish to make.