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The Post Office Royal Mail Sorting Office Lowreys Lane Low Fell Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE9 5JB

DC/08/00273/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 June 2008

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from storage and distribution (use class B8) to financial and professional services (use class A2) with associated car parking and construction of disabled access ramp at front of building (revised application). Amended 21/4/08

Received
25 February 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Low Fell
  1. Received25 Feb
  2. Validated25 Feb
  3. Consult.2 Apr
  4. Target20 Apr
  5. Decided10 Jun

Decided in 106 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Post Office Royal Mail Sorting Office Lowreys Lane Low Fell Gateshead Tyne And Wear NE9 5JB. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 6 weeks longer than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications 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 5JB
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 February 2008
Last date for comments
2 April 2008
Target decision date
20 April 2008
Permission expires
10 June 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
570a Durham Road Low Fell Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE9 6HX

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
1

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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