Campaigners have vowed to continue their fight against Durham County Council's controversial new headquarters.
The City of Durham Parish Council is to continue moving forward with legal action in a bid to stop the development on The Sands car park from going ahead.
Durham County Council's planning committee approved the application for the £50 million HQ, despite it receiving nearly 1,000 letters of objections and residents taking to the streets to protest.
The Parish Council is now seeking a judicial review of the scheme, with the hope the authority will go "back to the drawing board" over the plans.
It comes after the Secretary of State decided not to call in the application for consideration, saying he was satisfied with the application.
Now, the Parish Council has launched a fundraising campaign on crowdjustice so it can continue its fight.
Parish Council chairwoman Councillor Elizabeth Scott said: "The public clearly recognise that the Parish Council is committed to fighting this proposed scheme all the way and a number of members of the public had even offered donations to support us in fighting these plans.
"As a result, in deciding to move forward with legal action, we also decided to investigate the option of crowd funding.
"This is a real community-led effort in a bid to try and stop these proposals and get the County Council to go back to the drawing board on this ill-thought out £50million scheme which will have a devastating impact on our City, our local amenity, our environment, traffic, local residents and businesses and our much-loved world heritage site."
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Councillors narrowly voted in favour of the plans, which include a council chamber, care and new civic centre, by a margin of 8-6.
Thousands of people signed a petition calling on the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to carry out a public inquiry after the application was approved.
But the plans won't be reconsidered with campaigners being told the secretary was "satisfied the application should be determined at a local level".
The current building at Aykley Heads will be demolished and developed as a centre for high-tech and high-paying jobs.
The local authority insist moving to a smaller HQ would reduce the running costs and boost the city centre's economy.
More than 800 members of staff from County Hall will move into four key sites across the county, with staff moving into Crook, Spennymoor, Seaham and Meadowfield.
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