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Northumberland County Council Planning Applications

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796Applications (90 days)
12Major applications
89%Approval rate
43 daysMedian decision time
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26/03044/MISCInfrastructure

Opposite Cara House Main Road NE43 7EA

Installation of Subtended Headend Sidepod onto existing BT cabinet. Your ref: Stocksfield Exchange NNBEFW PCP 3

Registered
26/03024/FULHouseholder£50k–100k

Roughlees Farm Fontburn Waterworks Ewesley Northumberland NE61 4PH

Demolition of outbuildings, and alterations and extension of existing dwelling

Registered
26/03045/MISCInfrastructure

Opposite Cade Hill Road NE43 7JP

Installation of Subtended Headend Sidepod onto existing BT cabinet. Your ref: Stocksfield Exchange NNBEFY PCP 5

Registered
26/03033/LBCInstitutional

Wallington Hall Wallington Morpeth Northumberland NE61 4AR

Listed Building Consent for installation of lightning protection measures to Wallington Hall.

Registered
26/03029/DISCONOther

Hollin Hill Cottage Hollin Hill Terrace Riding Mill Northumberland NE44 6HP

Discharge of condition 5 (proposed painting/staining) on approved application 26/01670/FUL

Registered
26/03035/DISCONOther

Land South East Of Law Courts Schalksmuhle Road Bedlington Northumberland

Discharge of conditions 3 (Biodiversity Gain) and 4 (LEMP) on approved application 26/00837/FUL

Registered
26/03032/FULInstitutional

Wallington Hall Wallington Morpeth Northumberland NE61 4AR

Installation of lightning protection measures to Wallington Hall.

Registered
26/03036/DISCONOther

Land South East Of Law Courts Schalksmuhle Road Bedlington Northumberland

Discharge of Condition 13 (Land Contamination) of approved application 26/00837/FUL

Registered
26/03050/MISCInfrastructure

H3G Communications Mast Rooftop 1 - 7 Priestpopple Hexham Northumberland

Pole Replacement, comprising the removal of existing 15.68m wall mounted Alpha 8 pole (at +18.24 AGL) and installation of 1no 10.0m wall mounted EE CommScope pole with tri-sector antenna (at 13.60 AGL

Registered
26/03048/MISCInfrastructure<£10k

O/S Of 16 Chapel Close Acomb Hexham NE46 4RX

Install 1 X 11m light pole. Your ref: HZ_V26012/2

Registered
26/03031/DISCONOther

Land North East Of Unit 5 Sleekburn Business Centre West Sleekburn Northumberland

Discharge of Conditions 3 (Biodiversity Net Gain), 4 (Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan) and 7 (Construction Method Statement) of approved application 26/01570/FUL

Registered
26/03030/ELEGDOInfrastructure

Land South Of Gloucester Lodge Farm Links Road Blyth Northumberland

Convert Existing Low Voltage Overhead Line from Bare Wire to an Aerial Bunched Conductor (ABC) - Reference: RAL/N023245

Registered
26/03014/FULHouseholder£50k–100k

The Meadows Steel Hexham Northumberland NE47 0HA

Demolition of garden wall to enable erection of single storey garden room extension to West elevation

Registered
26/03018/DISCONOther

Land At Fairfield Hexham Northumberland NE46 3DH

Discharge of condition 6 (BNG Plan) on approved application 26/00769/FUL

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26/03012/LBCHouseholder£10k–50k

Village House 11 Front Street Bamburgh Northumberland NE69 7BW

Listed Building Consent for proposed rear sun room extension

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Planning appeals in Northumberland County Council

When Northumberland County Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.

Northumberland County Council, raw rate

23.3%

of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand

Expected for this mix of appeals

30.5%

what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload

7.2 percentage points below expected. Northumberland County Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.

761 appeals counted, 690 judged either way (161 allowed, 529 dismissed), 71 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.

By kind of appeal

Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.

Northumberland County Council appeal outcomes by appeal type, with the national rate for each type
Appeal typeCasesJudgedAllowedThis councilNational
Planning Appeal44544010223.2%28.8%
Householder (HAS)1531513825.2%35.6%
Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal363339.1%25%
Enforcement Notice3323417.4%13.5%
Rights of Way Opposed Orders2900None judgedNot published
Lawful Development Certificate1515533.3%36.9%
Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)1414321.4%33.3%
Common Land900None judgedNot published
Rights of Way Modifications766100%100%
Rights Of Way - Schedule 14A600None judgedNot published
High Hedges320Too few judged28.5%
Rights Of Way - Schedule 14D300None judgedNot published
Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice210Too few judged8.1%
Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts)220Too few judged27.6%
Advertisement Appeal110Too few judged36%
Called In Planning Application110Too few judged72.4%
Environmental100None judgedNot published
Section 106 Agreement110Too few judged39.8%

“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.

Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.

Money behind development in Northumberland County Council

Developer contributions at Northumberland County Council

Northumberland County Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.

Affordable housing grant in Northumberland County Council

Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.

21
Confirmed schemes
212
Homes
£12,353,500
Grant requested
  • Social rent109 homes
  • Affordable rent40 homes
  • Shared ownership63 homes

Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.

About Northumberland County Council

Northumberland County Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.

SiteLens tracks the Northumberland County Council planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.

You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Northumberland County Council planning portal.

Northumberland County Council approval rates by application type

Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.

  • other86% (253 decided)
  • householder90% (199 decided)
  • infrastructure100% (68 decided)
  • residential73% (45 decided)

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