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Friendly Frogs Pre-school Shilbottle First School Grange Road Shilbottle Alnwick Northumberland NE66 2XQ

23/02548/CCDCounty Council DevelopmentApproved

Approved on 17 October 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing nursery building, picket fence and polytunnel. Construction of new replacement single storey nursery building on the adjacent hard landscape. New playground over the footprint of the demolished building.

Received
12 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Shilbottle
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated12 Jul
  3. Consult.17 Oct
  4. Target17 Oct
  5. Decided17 Oct

Decided in 97 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Friendly Frogs Pre-school Shilbottle First School Grange Road Shilbottle Alnwick Northumberland NE66 2XQ. Northumberland (County) has handled 476 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 weeks longer than Northumberland (County)'s typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Shilbottle. We hold 1,410 applications in total for the NE66 postcode area.

90% of all 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
NE66 2XQ
Application type
County Council Development
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Shilbottle

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 July 2023
Consultation expiry
17 October 2023
Consultation start
17 October 2023
Consultation end
17 October 2023
Neighbour consultation start
20 July 2023
Neighbour consultation end
10 August 2023
Last date for comments
17 October 2023
Target decision date
17 October 2023
Permission expires
17 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Portakabin
Agent address
New Lane Huntingdon York YO32 9PT

Planning decision

Statutory period
97 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 August 2023
Site notice end
30 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12224029
Documents
16
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.

© 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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