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Shadon House Northumberland Place Barley Mow Chester Le Street DH3 2AP

DC/23/00370/DEMDemolition NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 25 May 2023

Council decision: Prior approval required and approvedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

DETERMINATION OF PRIOR APPROVAL: Demolition of former residential care home.

Received
25 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Birtley
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.12 May
  4. Target25 May
  5. Decided25 May

Decided in 28 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Shadon House Northumberland Place Barley Mow Chester Le Street DH3 2AP. Gateshead has handled 48 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 5 weeks quicker than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Birtley. We hold 670 applications in total for the DH3 postcode area.

92% of all 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
DH3 2AP
Application type
Demolition Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Birtley Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2023
Consultation expiry
12 May 2023
Consultation end
12 May 2023
Neighbour consultation end
12 May 2023
Last date for comments
22 May 2023
Target decision date
25 May 2023
Permission expires
25 May 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gateshead Council
Agent address
Design And Minor Projects Housing Environment And Healty Communities Civic Centre Regent Street Gateshead NE8 1HH

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 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

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.

Source: Gateshead

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