Unit 5 Vance Court Dunne Road Blaydon NE21 5NH

DC/25/01297/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use/DevApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 January 2026

Council decision: Development considered to be lawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFULNESS FOR A PROPOSED USE: The existing building use class B2 to continue for use of car repairs and vehicle servicing.

Received: 18 November 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: Blaydon

ReceivedReceived18 Nov
ValidatedValidated18 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date23 Jan
DecidedDecided23 Jan

Decided in 66 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at Unit 5 Vance Court Dunne Road Blaydon NE21 5NH. Gateshead has handled 165 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 3 days 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 38 applications across Blaydon. We hold 115 applications in total for the NE21 postcode area.

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

Postcode: NE21 5NH
Application type: Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 November 2025
Target decision date: 23 January 2026
Permission expires: 23 January 2031

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant
Agent address: 9 Combe Drive Lemington Newcastle Upon Tyne NE15 8UN

Planning decision

Case officer: James Hudson
Statutory period: 66 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 6
Constraints: 7

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.

Source: Gateshead

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