18 Burnthouse Lane Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 5AW
Approved on 22 January 2026
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Heavy pruning of Beech tree located to rear of the property remove one significant full limb and crown reduce the other branches by 10m (effectively a 50% reduction of the whole crown).
- Received
- 30 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Whickham South And Sunniside
- ReceivedReceived30 Sep
- ValidatedValidated30 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date25 Nov
- DecidedDecided22 Jan
Decided in 114 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at 18 Burnthouse Lane Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 5AW. Gateshead has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 114 days, 7 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 37 applications across Whickham South And Sunniside. We hold 1,516 applications in total for the NE16 postcode area.
100% of trees 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
- NE16 5AW
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 25 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 22 January 2028
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Chris Redfern
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation Order: TPO 006Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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