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The Walled Garden Gibside Estate Hillhead Lane Gibside Whickham NE16 6BG

DC/15/00162/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 24 June 2015

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Repair of Garden Wall including introduction of buttresses, restoration of apple house doorway and doorleaf.

Received
12 February 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Whickham South And Sunniside
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.24 Jun
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided24 Jun

Decided in 132 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Walled Garden Gibside Estate Hillhead Lane Gibside Whickham NE16 6BG. Gateshead has handled 2,345 applications of this type. This one was decided in 132 days, 10 weeks longer than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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.

91% of full 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 6BG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2015
Last date for comments
24 June 2015
Target decision date
8 April 2015
Permission expires
24 June 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent
Spence and Dower
Agent address
25 Main Street Ponteland Newcastle Upon Tyne NE20 9NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
5

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: Gibside CA
  • Green belt: Gateshead
  • Registered park and garden: Gibside
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2015
    12 Feb

    Repair of Garden Wall including introduction of buttresses, restoration of apple house doorway and doorleaf.

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/15/00162/FUL
  2. 2015
    12 Feb

    Repair of Garden Wall including introduction of buttresses, restoration of apple house doorway and doorleaf

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideDC/15/00166/LBC

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