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1 Police Houses Gateshead Road Sunniside Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 5LG

DC/18/00625/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 August 2018

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of dwelling (use class C3) to mixed C3 (residential) / A1 (retail) to allow hair and beauty salon to operate from ground floor study

Received
14 June 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whickham South And Sunniside
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target2 Sep
  5. Decided9 Aug

Decided in 31 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 1 Police Houses Gateshead Road Sunniside Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 5LG. 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 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Whickham South And Sunniside. We hold 1,520 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 5LG
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 July 2018
Consultation expiry
6 August 2018
Consultation end
6 August 2018
Neighbour consultation end
1 August 2018
Last date for comments
6 August 2018
Target decision date
2 September 2018
Permission expires
9 August 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
12
Constraints
2

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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© 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.

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