The Abbey Retirement Home Old Abbey Road North Berwick EH39 4BP
Approved on 5 September 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Alterations, change of use of building to form 1 house, 6 short term holiday let units and associated works
- Received
- 11 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- East Lothian Council
- Ward
- North Berwick Coastal
- ReceivedReceived11 Apr
- ValidatedValidated30 Apr
- Consult.Consultation22 May
- TargetTarget Date25 Jun
- DecidedDecided5 Sep
Decided in 128 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Abbey Retirement Home Old Abbey Road North Berwick EH39 4BP. East Lothian has handled 2,383 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than East Lothian's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 154 applications across North Berwick Coastal. We hold 1,031 applications in total for the EH39 postcode area.
96% of full applications at East Lothian Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- EH39 4BP
- Application type
- Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- North Berwick Community Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 30 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 22 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 5 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 21 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 30 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 25 June 2025
- Committee meeting
- 28 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 September 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Per Colin Gibson 35 Joppa Road Edinburgh EH15 2HB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 9 May 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 30 May 2025
- Site notice start
- 9 May 2025
- Site notice end
- 30 May 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 24
Site constraints
Source: East Lothian
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