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Nursery Garden Chester Road Sunderland

16/00214/LP3Local Authority (Reg 3 )Approved

Approved on 26 May 2016

Planning committee

Proposal

Change of use of nursery from wholesale horticulture to retail garden centre, to include widening of access, installation of a portacabin for additional rest room/training facilities, conversion of mess room to coffee shop and extension of car parking from 9 to 46 spaces.

Received
12 February 2016
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
4
Ward
Pallion
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target12 Jun
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Nursery Garden Chester Road Sunderland. Sunderland has handled 74 applications of this type. This one was decided in 104 days, 8 weeks longer than Sunderland's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address.

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

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Application details

Application type
Local Authority (Reg 3 )
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2016
Consultation expiry
3 May 2016
Consultation start
1 April 2016
Consultation end
22 April 2016
Neighbour consultation start
31 March 2016
Neighbour consultation end
21 April 2016
Last date for comments
3 May 2016
Target decision date
12 June 2016
Committee meeting
24 May 2016
Permission expires
26 May 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 April 2016
Site notice end
3 May 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04760786
Documents
10
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2016
    12 Feb

    Change of use of nursery from wholesale horticulture to retail garden centre, to include widening of access…

    This applicationApprovedOther16/00214/LP3
  2. 2016
    12 Feb

    Part removal of boundary wall to allow widening of access

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside16/00215/LB3

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2016
    25 Feb

    Display of replacement non-illuminated sign to entrance

    ApprovedAdvertisement consent16/00315/ADV

Source: Sunderland

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