Office Within Solway House 5 Station Road Benton Newcastle Upon Tyne NE12 8AN
Approved on 13 April 2026
Council decision: No TPO req Trees in conservation areaDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1, T5, T7, T10 - Yew - prune. T12 - Sycamore - crown clean of canopy. T16 - Beech - crown lift to 3.0m over the car park. T19 - Sycamore - fell to ground level. T20 - Silver Birch - fell to ground level. T21 - Sycamore - crown clean of canopy. T25 - Wild Cherry - remove. T26 - Lawson Cypress - prune. Hedge 1 - Western Red Cedar - remove dead tree, prune to provide 1.0m clearance from adjacent building
- Received
- 19 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Longbenton & Benton
- ReceivedReceived19 Mar
- ValidatedValidated19 Mar
- Consult.Consultation11 Apr
- TargetTarget Date21 Apr
- DecidedDecided13 Apr
Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Office Within Solway House 5 Station Road Benton Newcastle Upon Tyne NE12 8AN. North Tyneside has handled 315 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than North Tyneside's typical decision time. The site is in the Benton conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Longbenton & Benton. We hold 198 applications in total for the NE12 postcode area.
94% of trees 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
- NE12 8AN
- Application type
- work to trees in a conservation area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- North West
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 11 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 19 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 11 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 11 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 21 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Ben Burnip 21 Hepscott Drive Whitley Bay NE25 9XJ
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Maxine Ingram
- Statutory period
- 33 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Benton
- Tree Preservation Order: 68/00049/TPOProtected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage 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.
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Source: North Tyneside
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