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Smarts Pet Grooming Salon 38 Wesley Court Blaydon NE21 5BT

DC/23/00153/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 27 April 2023

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFULNESS FOR EXISTING USE OR DEVELOPMENT: Use of premises as dog grooming business (Use Class E) (description amended)

Received
22 February 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Blaydon
  1. Received22 Feb
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.3 Apr
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Smarts Pet Grooming Salon 38 Wesley Court Blaydon NE21 5BT. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Blaydon. We hold 115 applications in total for the NE21 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
NE21 5BT
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2023
Last date for comments
3 April 2023
Target decision date
28 April 2023
Permission expires
27 April 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Blaydon CAPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Church of St CuthbertOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Methodist chapel, East Street, High SpenRegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: Gateshead

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