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Black Swan Inn 2 Union Street Seahouses NE68 7RT

19/02284/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 October 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Minor extension to existing bar/public house kitchen area as single storey facility on existing footprint, formation of courtyard bin store, store and cycle parking, glazed enclosure of existing lean-to roofed courtyard covered area to provide enclosed seating, demolition of existing entrance porch and concrete ramp, formation of external terrace to public house frontage/street edge. Revised new ventilation/sound attenuation equipment to flat roof area.

Received
17 July 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
12
Ward
Bamburgh
Agent
Nick Midgley Design
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.22 Oct
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Black Swan Inn 2 Union Street Seahouses NE68 7RT. Northumberland (County) has handled 5,584 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 weeks longer than Northumberland (County)'s typical decision time. The site is in the Seahouses conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Bamburgh. We hold 506 applications in total for the NE68 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Northumberland County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NE68 7RT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
North Sunderland

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2019
Consultation expiry
22 October 2019
Consultation start
22 October 2019
Consultation end
22 October 2019
Neighbour consultation start
15 August 2019
Neighbour consultation end
5 September 2019
Last date for comments
12 September 2019
Target decision date
22 October 2019
Permission expires
22 October 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
Nick Midgley Design
Agent address
The Studio Brock Cottage 20 Dewsbury Road Rastrick Brighouse HD6 3QB

Planning decision

Statutory period
69 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 August 2019
Advertisement expiry
12 September 2019
Site notice start
21 August 2019
Site notice end
11 September 2019

Appeal history

3281549
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 11 July 2022Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Failure

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07989383
Documents
30
Constraints
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Seahouses
  • National Landscape (AONB): Northumberland Coast
  • Heritage coast: North Northumberland
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2005
    24 Nov

    Proposed single storey extension.

    ApprovedFull ApplicationN/05/B/0835

Source: Northumberland (County)

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