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First Floor - Upper Floor 23 - 24 Market Street Blyth Northumberland NE24 1BQ

23/03161/RETRESPrior Approval Retail to ResidentialApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 July 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval req and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification of Prior Approval for change of use and refurbishment of vacant first floor office (B1, now Class E) to accommodate 3no. studio flats (as one bedroom C3 dwellings)

Received
18 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Croft
Agent
Anton Lang Planning Services Ltd
  1. Received18 Aug
  2. Validated18 Aug
  3. Consult.1 May
  4. Target19 Jul
  5. Decided18 Jul

Decided in 335 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at First Floor - Upper Floor 23 - 24 Market Street Blyth Northumberland NE24 1BQ. Northumberland (County) has handled 815 applications of this type. This one was decided in 335 days, 41 weeks longer than Northumberland (County)'s typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Croft. We hold 680 applications in total for the NE24 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
NE24 1BQ
Application type
Prior Approval Retail to Residential
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blyth

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 August 2023
Consultation expiry
11 October 2023
Consultation start
20 September 2023
Consultation end
1 May 2024
Last date for comments
11 October 2023
Target decision date
19 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Anton Lang Planning Services Ltd
Agent address
C/O Applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
77 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 September 2023
Site notice end
11 October 2023

Additional information

Documents
18
Constraints
9

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

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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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Associated applications

  1. 2024
    24 Sep

    Removal (or variation) of condition 3 (cycle parking) on approved planning application 23/03161/RETRES

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)24/03288/VARYCO
  2. 2023
    18 Aug

    Notification of Prior Approval for change of use and refurbishment of vacant first floor office (B1, now…

    This applicationApprovedOutline23/03161/RETRES

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