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272 Saltwell Road Bensham Gateshead NE8 4TP

DC/19/00844/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use/DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 October 2019

Council decision: Use considered to be lawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF PROPOSED LAWFUL USE: Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to care home for up to three children aged between five and seventeen years old, with care being provided by no more than two support staff at any one time (with shift changes at 07.00) and a Registered Home Manager on site Monday to Friday between 09.00 and 17.00 (Use Class C2) (additional information received 12.09.2019 and description amended 16.09.2019)

Received
12 August 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Saltwell
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.9 Oct
  4. Target6 Oct
  5. Decided18 Oct

Decided in 67 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 272 Saltwell Road Bensham Gateshead NE8 4TP. Gateshead has handled 165 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 4 days 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 33 applications across Saltwell. We hold 284 applications in total for the NE8 postcode area.

92% of outline 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
NE8 4TP
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2019
Consultation expiry
9 October 2019
Neighbour consultation end
9 October 2019
Last date for comments
9 October 2019
Target decision date
6 October 2019
Permission expires
18 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lichfields
Agent address
Lichfields St Nicholas Building St Nicholas Street Newcastle NE1 1RF

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
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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