St Luke's former C of E Church (Greystead Old Church), Greystead, Tarset, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 1LE Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 21NP0002

Council

Northumberland (Park) 5.9/10

Date received

27 Apr 2026

Date validated

27 Apr 2026

Postcode

NE48 1LE

Description

Change of use from holiday accommodation to principal residence housing Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:57

Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 165.

Day 165, past the statutory target. 81% of full applications in Northumberland (Park) are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Aug 2026.

target

predicted

Day 165109 days past the 56-day target

56%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

96,673decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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.

Habitat network: Restorable Habitat

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 7 m away: Good quality semi improved grassland.

Not affected

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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Other new applications on this street

27 Apr 2026Pending

Greystead Institute, Tarset, Hexham, Northumberland, NE48 1LE

Change of use from holiday accommodation to principal residence housing

21NP0003

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2021 Approved

Hott School House, Tarset, Northumberland, NE48 1LE

Construction of single storey sunroom to principal elevation and rear porch

21NP0042 10 Sep 2021

Northumberland (Park)

Planning Authority Score

5.9/10

Average

#107 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

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

Total decisions

4 refused in the year to March 2026