Old Post Office 24 The Village Eglingham Northumberland NE66 2TX Data via plota.co.uk

26/02574/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Remove car port and garage; lower ground levels to rear of the property to below internal floor levels; provide off-street parking area to rear including hard landscaping to provide patio seating area; reconfigure the rear of the ground floor layout within the existing footprint, enlarging the kitchen and dining room, and reconfiguring existing partitions to provide a WC and plant room; alter fenestration to improve entrance to the property, and the visual and physical connections of the building to the gardens; remove radiators and external oil tank, and install underfloor heating throughout at ground and first floor level, served by an air source heat pump; renew and reconfigure the kitchen and bathroom fittings; and create two garden storage sheds Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 Jul 2026
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Validated
23 Jul 2026
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Approved
11 Sept 2026
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Consultation
14 Sept 2026

Approved on 11 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 15 Sept 2026

Site constraints 5

Grade II listed: Post Office
List entry 1041970 · 1 m away · 5 more listed buildings within 150 m (5 Grade II)
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 ↗
Eglingham conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
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: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 30 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £470,000 in May 2026. Detached house, freehold.

22 May 2026£470,000
30 August 2013£375,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Full Application
Postcode
NE66 2TX
Received
22 Jul 2026
Validated
23 Jul 2026
Ward
Wooler
Parish
Eglingham
Case officer
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Target decision
20 Aug 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
11 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Doonan Architects Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 50 days from validation, 6 days faster than Northumberland (County)'s median of 56 for demolitions. Approved, as 92% of demolitions here are.

61%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
146decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Northumberland (County) in the last twelve months, from validation. Northumberland (County) decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

4 neighbours consulted · Last counted 15 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15099020
Neighbours
23 Jul 2026
Consultation
14 Sept 2026
Comments by
14 Sept 2026
Site or press notice
7 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry
20 Aug 2026
Env. assessment
No
Northumberland (County)
Planning Authority Score
3.8/10
Below average
#207 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Northumberland (County) ranks #167 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 47% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Northumberland (County) decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #158 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #178 of 296
62%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #167 of 296
47%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #210 of 296
80%
Minor dwellings approved
223 decided (1-9 homes)
89%
Major dwellings approved
36 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
71 decided
2,013
Total decisions
233 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use