Land Immediately To The North Of Walkergate Metro Station Benfield Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 4NT Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Erection of 4 storey 92 bedroom residential care home (Class C2) with car parking, associated plant equipment, hard and soft landscaping. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 22 Jun 2026 · Planning Committee Decision · Last checked 1 Oct 2026
Documents 61
Decision & officer reports 4
Statements & assessments 27
Plans & drawings 13
Application forms 2
Other documents 15
Associated applications 3
Site constraints 3
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 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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Important details
- Council
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Application type
- Detailed Application
- Postcode
- NE6 4NT
- Received
- 4 Apr 2025
- Validated
- 2 Jun 2025
- Ward
- y_Walkergate (up to May 2026)
- Parish
- Not Within A Parish Boundary
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 30 Jun 2026
- Decision
- Grant Conditionally
- Decision date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Decision level
- Planning Committee Decision
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- Acanthus Darbyshire Architects
How this decision compares
Decided in 385 days from validation, 322 days slower than Newcastle upon Tyne's median of 63 for full applications. Approved, as 80% of full applications here are.
Plota live figures for full applications decided by Newcastle upon Tyne in the last twelve months, from validation. Newcastle upon Tyne decision record →
Consultation & key dates
- Statutory expiry
- 30 Jun 2026
Historical activity at this location
9 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Nearby activity
Newcastle upon Tyne is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #205 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).
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