1 Percy Road & 162 Whitley Road Whitley Bay Tyne And Wear NE26 2AX
Approved on 3 May 2019
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use and subdivision of 162 Whitley Road from a tattoo parlour (sui generis use class) to Use Class A3 to provide an extension to the existing Grapes Café at 164 Whitley Road and a living room for the residential dwelling at 1 Percy Road (i.e. reinstate the original floor plan of this dwelling). New shop front facing Whitley Road. Outside seating area to be created for Grapes Café, to be enclosed by new boundary treatment.
- Received
- 27 February 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Ward
- Whitley Bay
- ReceivedReceived27 Feb
- ValidatedValidated7 Mar
- Consult.Consultation12 Apr
- TargetTarget Date28 Apr
- DecidedDecided3 May
Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 1 Percy Road & 162 Whitley Road Whitley Bay Tyne And Wear NE26 2AX. North Tyneside has handled 1,367 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 2 weeks longer than North Tyneside's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 750 applications in total for the NE26 postcode area.
97% of full applications at North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- NE26 2AX
- Application type
- full planning application non major
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Whitley Bay
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 March 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 12 April 2019
- Consultation start
- 22 March 2019
- Consultation end
- 12 April 2019
- Neighbour consultation start
- 22 March 2019
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 April 2019
- Last date for comments
- 12 April 2019
- Target decision date
- 28 April 2019
- Permission expires
- 3 May 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Simon Smith 4 Fairway Drive Blyth NE24 4BF
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-07649623
- Documents
- 12
Site constraints
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.
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Source: North Tyneside
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