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Percy Wood Golf Club And Country Retreat Coast View Swarland Morpeth Northumberland NE65 9JW

19/04108/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 January 2021

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing golf club house and associated buildings, and development of up to16 dwellings with all matters reserved apart from access.

Received
7 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
16
Ward
Shilbottle
  1. Received7 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided25 Jan

Decided in 468 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Percy Wood Golf Club And Country Retreat Coast View Swarland Morpeth Northumberland NE65 9JW. Northumberland (County) has handled 815 applications of this type. This one was decided in 476 days, 61 weeks longer than Northumberland (County)'s typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Shilbottle. We hold 1,219 applications in total for the NE65 postcode area.

84% of outline 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
NE65 9JW
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Newton-on-the-Moor & Swarland

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2019
Consultation expiry
27 January 2021
Consultation start
27 January 2021
Consultation end
27 January 2021
Neighbour consultation start
16 October 2019
Neighbour consultation end
6 November 2019
Last date for comments
26 December 2019
Target decision date
30 January 2021
Decision issued
27 January 2021
Permission expires
27 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lichfields
Agent address
St Nicholas Building St Nicholas Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1RF United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
473 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 December 2019
Advertisement expiry
26 December 2019
Site notice start
4 December 2019
Site notice end
25 December 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08162538
Documents
57
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Golf Club House, Percy Wood Golf Club and Country Retreat, SwarlandRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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 and heritage coasts.

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: Northumberland (County)

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