Client

MGH Card Ltd

Local Authority

Durham County Council

Project Description

Durham Riverside Renewal

Value

£130m

On behalf of MGH Card Ltd, DPP was appointed to coordinate and prepare a planning application for a major mixed-use scheme on Durham’s riverfront as part of Durham Riverside Renewal. The scheme includes residential, office, leisure and retail uses plus significant improvements to the public realm.

As the site is in views of a World Heritage Site (WHS) and is within a Conservation Area, Flood Zones 2 and 3, and air quality management area, DPP prepared (with technical input from other consultants) and project managed an Environmental Impact Assessment to support the application as well as securing permission for demolition of the existing buildings.

DPP has co-ordinated a complex project and consultant team and successfully demonstrated that although the site is located within the flood zone and within views of the WHS, the proposed development will be suitable in this location. The application was approved by planning committee in November 2016 and work began onsite in 2019