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Smokers Discount 485 Durham Road Low Fell Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE9 5EX

DC/04/02152/COUChange of UseWithdrawn
Discharge / amendments

Withdrawn on 10 March 2005

Planning committee

Proposal

Change of use from retail unit (use Class A1) to betting office (use Class A2) (AMENDED RED LINE LOCATION PLAN).

Received
5 January 2005
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Low Fell
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Apr
  4. Target1 Mar
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 64 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Smokers Discount 485 Durham Road Low Fell Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE9 5EX. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 64 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Low Fell. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the NE9 postcode area.

94% of amendment applications at Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NE9 5EX
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2005
Last date for comments
11 April 2005
Target decision date
1 March 2005
Permission expires
10 March 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Sandgate House 102 Quayside Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 3DX

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Low Fell CA
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Gateshead

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