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On the 5 July 2016, planning permission was passed for a substantial commercial livery stable to be built in front of the village houses (ref Durham County
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With the closure of the colliery in 1964 the miners' houses at High
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subsidence report on the stability of the land. It was alleged that no member of the planning committee had ever been to High
Westwood.Eight years later it is still unfinished!
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