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The Medical Centre 1 Rawling Road Gateshead NE8 4QS

DC/24/00957/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 13 April 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)29 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Proposed change of use of vacant land adjacent to existing medical centre to facilitate a single storey extension to medical centre to provide 8 no. additional clinical rooms, an extended car park with 24 no. additional car parking spaces, a new car park access and a community garden facility (drainage statement received 16.05.2025, amended ecology information received 04.06.2025, CMRA and amended site plan received 16.06.2025, parking assessment received 02.07.2025, parking technical note received 07.08.2025, updated CMRA received 07.01.2026, additional docs received 11.02.2026).

Received
1 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Lobley Hill And Bensham
Agent
Beaumont Brown Architects LLP
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated9 Dec
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target3 Feb
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 490 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Medical Centre 1 Rawling Road Gateshead NE8 4QS. Gateshead has handled 2,345 applications of this type. This one was decided in 528 days, 66 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 35 applications across Lobley Hill And Bensham. We hold 284 applications in total for the NE8 postcode area.

91% of full 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
NE8 4QS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 December 2024
Consultation expiry
10 March 2026
Consultation end
10 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
4 February 2025
Target decision date
3 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Beaumont Brown Architects LLP
Agent address
The Old Brewery Castle Eden TS27 4SU United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
17 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

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