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168 Kells Lane Low Fell Gateshead Gateshead NE9 5HY

DC/22/01240/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 January 2023

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of part of restaurant to office space, including insertion of fire door into front (eastern) elevation of existing restaurant. Alterations to front canopy of restaurant to create covered porch (part retrospective) (revised description).

Received
3 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Low Fell
Agent
KRY Designs
  1. Received3 Nov
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 168 Kells Lane Low Fell Gateshead Gateshead NE9 5HY. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 3 weeks 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 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 5HY
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2022
Consultation expiry
6 February 2023
Consultation end
6 February 2023
Neighbour consultation end
31 December 2022
Last date for comments
6 February 2023
Target decision date
27 January 2023
Permission expires
27 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
KRY Designs
Agent address
7 Kingston Close Whitley Bay NE26 1JW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
11 January 2023
Site notice end
30 December 2022

Additional information

Documents
15
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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