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Land Adjacent To 44 Longwood Close Sunniside Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE16 5QD

DC/05/00392/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 June 2005

Council decision: GrantPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of open land to private garden area, including the erection of a 1.8 metre high close-boarded fence on the boundary (amended 23 May 2005).

Received
8 March 2005
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Whickham South And Sunniside
  1. Received8 Mar
  2. Validated8 Mar
  3. Consult.18 Jul
  4. Target2 May
  5. Decided23 Jun

Decided in 107 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Adjacent To 44 Longwood Close Sunniside Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE16 5QD. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 6 weeks longer than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Whickham South And Sunniside. We hold 1,516 applications in total for the NE16 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
NE16 5QD
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 March 2005
Last date for comments
18 July 2005
Target decision date
2 May 2005
Committee meeting
22 June 2005
Permission expires
23 June 2010

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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.

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