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490 Durham Road Gateshead NE9 6HU

DC/20/00370/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 July 2020

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing bank and ancillary offices/stores (use class A2) to ground floor and basement cafe/restaurant (use class A3) with separate office unit above (use class A2) including replacement shopfront/entrance doors, new window and door openings and internal reconfiguration and refurbishment.

Received
6 May 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Low Fell
Agent
Northpoint Architects
  1. Received6 May
  2. Validated20 May
  3. Consult.11 Jun
  4. Target14 Jul
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 58 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 490 Durham Road Gateshead NE9 6HU. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 9 days longer than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 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 6HU
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 May 2020
Consultation expiry
18 June 2020
Consultation end
11 June 2020
Neighbour consultation end
18 June 2020
Last date for comments
18 June 2020
Target decision date
14 July 2020
Permission expires
17 July 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Northpoint Architects
Architect profile
NORTHPOINT ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
4 Staithes The Watermark Gateshead NE11 9SN

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
17 June 2020

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2021
    29 Jan

    Discharge of condition 3 (Shop Front Details) of planning approval DC/20/00370/COU

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions20/00370/DOC1
  2. 2020
    6 May

    Change of use of existing bank and ancillary offices/stores (use class A2) to ground floor and basement…

    This applicationApprovedAmendmentDC/20/00370/COU

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