Hesleyside Hall Cottage, Bellingham, Northumberland, NE48 2LA Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 26NP0019
AgriculturalCommercial & major works
Council
Northumberland (Park) 5.9/10
Date received
around 5 Feb 2026
Date validated
5 Feb 2026
Decision date
1 Apr 2026
Postcode
NE48 2LA

Description

Application for Prior Notification - Erection of a timber storage building Data via plota.co.uk

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How this decision compares

Decided in 55 days from validation, 22 days slower than Northumberland (Park)'s median of 33 for prior approvals. Approved, as 83% of prior approvals here are.

93%decided within 8 weeks
83%approved
26,020decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent prior approvals in Northumberland (Park) to go on. Northumberland (Park) decision record →

Site constraints 9

5 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Stable Block C 15 Yards West of Hesleyside Hall, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 1 Grade II*, 4 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Northumberland National Park
The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
Registered park or garden: Hesleyside
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
SSSI about 44 m away: Hesleyside Park SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 26 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Historical activity at this location

3 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved
Hesleyside Hall, Bellingham, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 2LA
Listed Building Consent - Repointing and rendering of stonework, replacement lintel and s…
22NP0064LBC
2022
Hesleyside Hall, Bellingham, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 2LA
Listed Building Consent - Repointing and rendering of stonework, replacement lintel and s…
22NP0064
2017 Approved
Hesleyside Hall, Bellingham, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 2LA
Listed Building Consent - Replacement of modern double glazed UPVC window with a single g…
17NP0068LBC
Northumberland (Park)
Planning Authority Score
5.9/10
Average
#107 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Northumberland (Park) is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #78 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Northumberland (Park) decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
90%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #114 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #161 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #78 of 296
38%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #131 of 296
100%
Minor dwellings approved
7 decided (1-9 homes)
75%
Change of use approved
4 decided
39
Total decisions
4 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings