St Cuthberts House Sidmouth Road Gateshead NE9 6US
Refused on 10 September 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of Use from a Care Home (Use Class C2) to a Day Nursery (Use Class E(f)), construction of link infill extension on east elevation, a new aluminium framed double glazed screen with doors and a raised platform on the west elevation, and alterations to surfacing adjoining the building to provide level access (additional information received 02.07.2025, amended 02.07.2025 and 11.07.2025)
- Received
- 17 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Ward
- Chowdene
- Agent
- Hedley Planning Services
- ReceivedReceived17 Mar
- ValidatedValidated1 Apr
- Consult.Consultation25 Jun
- TargetTarget Date10 Sep
- DecidedDecided10 Sep
Decided in 162 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at St Cuthberts House Sidmouth Road Gateshead NE9 6US. Gateshead has handled 292 applications of this type. This one was decided in 177 days, 16 weeks longer than Gateshead's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Chowdene. 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 6US
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 10 September 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Hedley Planning Services
- Agent address
- Unit 3 Hexham Enterprise Hub Burn Ln Hexham Northumberland NE46 3HY United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 162 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 14 May 2025
- Site notice end
- 7 May 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 23
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Chowdene 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Gateshead
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