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Belle Vue Guest House 31-33 Belle Vue Bank Low Fell Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE9 6BQ

DC/07/01903/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 February 2008

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from guest house (use class C1) to coffee/tea shop (use class A3).(Ground floor only)

Received
19 December 2007
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Low Fell
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target12 Feb
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Belle Vue Guest House 31-33 Belle Vue Bank Low Fell Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE9 6BQ. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 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 6BQ
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2007
Last date for comments
30 January 2008
Target decision date
12 February 2008
Permission expires
13 February 2013

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
3

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.

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