Planning application
Land North Of Northgate Hospital Northgate Morpeth Northumberland NE61 3BP
Works: Demolition
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Demolition of existing water tower and engineering operations, including ground preparation, and landscaping, associated with the creation of public open space
As published by the council, reference 26/02559/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 26/02559/FUL
- Type
- Full Application
- Status
- Registered
- Received
- 21 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 23 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Longhirst
- Parish
- Morpeth
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- NE61 3BP
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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21 Jul 2026
Received by Northumberland National Park
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23 Jul 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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3 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 17 September 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Northumberland National Park took a median of 48 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Lichfields Agent, registered in Newbury
Active · incorporated 2006 · Newbury
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See their track recordDocuments
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
29 documents on file for this application
- CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE
- CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE
- CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE
- COMMENT (OBJECTION) SUBMITTED ONLINE
- CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE
- COMMENT (OBJECTION) SUBMITTED ONLINE
- COMMENT (SUPPORT) SUBMITTED ONLINE
- CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE
- CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE
- COMMENT (NEUTRAL) SUBMITTED ONLINE
- PROPOSED SITE LAYOUT
- EXISTING SITE LAYOUT
- PRELIMINARY ROOST ASSESSMENT
- METHOD STATEMENT FOR DEMOLITION
- STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT
- MORPETH TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PLAN
- ARBORICULTURAL METHOD STATEMENT
- EXISTING ELEVATIONS 1 AND 2
- EXISTING ELEVATIONS 3 AND 4
- DEMOLITION ACCESS CLEARENCE ZONE
- TREE PROTECTION PLAN
- HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- EXISTING ELEVATIONS 5, 6 AND 7
- BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN ASSESSMENT
- COVERING LETTER
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