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Former Football Pitch Between Royal Mail Depot And Earlsway Station Approach Gateshead

DC/23/00826/OUTOutline ApplicationAwaiting decision
Outline / PiP
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline planning application, with all matters reserved apart from access, for the erection of general industrial and/or storage and distribution development with associated access, parking, servicing areas, landscaping and footpath (Use Classes B2 and/or B8) (amended details received 23/02/24, 27/03/24 and 22/07/24, additional information received 17/07/24 and 21/01/25 and amended description 21/01/25).

Received
19 September 2023
Decision due
31 January 2024
Public comments
0 · last counted 6 October 2026
Ward
Lamesley
  1. Received19 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target31 Jan
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 11 February.

About this application

This is an outline application at Former Football Pitch Between Royal Mail Depot And Earlsway Station Approach Gateshead. Gateshead has handled 165 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 19 September 2023 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Lamesley.

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

Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2023
Consultation expiry
26 February 2025
Consultation end
11 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 February 2025
Last date for comments
8 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lichfields
Agent address
St Nicholas Building St Nicholas Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1RF United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
134 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
26 February 2025
Site notice end
26 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
36
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.

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