Resources

Important Berwick planning applications

These are useful references to see how objections and other documents were worded.

• 5 Palace Street East (Old Grammar School), 2024 application: 24/03631/FUL and 24/03632/LBC
• 5 Palace Street East (Old Grammar School), 2021 application: 21/02292/FUL and 21/02293/LBC
• 15/02411/FUL, Pets at Home
• 16/01675/FUL: Premier Inn, Sandgate
• 24/02489/CCD: Bridge End car park
• 18/00248/FUL: Rejected St Aidan's House buildings
• 12/00144/FUL: Conversion of building to form 3 dwellings with garden room, extension and detached garage/greenhouse block | St Aidan's House 18 Palace Green Berwick-Upon-Tweed Northumberland TD15 1HR
• N/06/B/0714: Erection of 60 no. dwellings and conversion to create 6 no dwellings following demolition of outbuildings & garage buildings and conversion of pottery & offices; refurbishment and extension of existing offices (including development on the old Blackburn & Price garage site)
• 13/00471/FUL: Amendment to existing approved scheme (app N/06/B/0714) to substitute 16 no. apartments (plots 22-37) for 8 no. houses at the Blackburn & Price site
• 25/00486/CLEXIS: Certificate of Lawful Development to confirm development has been lawfully commenced (Spittal Point). This application has come back from the dead in 2025 as they have found documents proving that development started in 2019. The site is apparently being developed by Eco Maden.
• 12/00512/FUL: Redevelopment of former industrial site to provide 136 dwellings and 323 square metres commercial use, with public open space and public car park incorporating demolition of select stone and brick perimeter and retaining walls (Spittal Point). See the article in the Gazette about the application being disposed (timing out) and an older application
• 14/03206/FUL: Demolition of the existing building and structures and the erection of a new B1 office building (1,415 sqm GIA floorspace) and associated structures, car parking, access, landscaping and engineering works. (Phase 1) at the former Kwik Save in Walkergate
• N/04/B/0337: Proposed residential development for 30 no. units and associated infrastructure to include new vehicular access and landscaping. Application by Starnes (Berwick) Limited (No: 03068258) but this company is now dissolved. This is at the Old Coating & Blending Works, Dock Road, Berwick-upon-Tweed ‘Heritage Quay’ as listed on Rightmove
• 21/01355/FUL: Re-development of a brown field site to create 30 new homes. A mix of apartments and houses. Spittal Quay is the land east of Lifeboat House, Dock Road, Tweedmouth. See also the original, refused application 19/00474/FUL
• 6/02230/FUL: Seabank development by GMC, 2016, at the end of Spittal Beach. Two applications for Plot 1 nearer Spittal refused
• 20/01882/FULES: Berwick Community Hospital: Demolition of existing Berwick Infirmary and erection of new Community Hospital (Use Class C2) with integrated healthcare and clinical facilities including a GP surgery (Use Class D1), together with associated hard and soft landscaping, access arrangements, servicing and retention of existing Bell Tower
• 13/03594/LBC: 76 Ravensdowne: Alterations to existing building and construction of 1 x dwelling and 9 x flats as previously granted 08/B/0644
• N/08/B/0645: 76 Ravensdowne: Alterations to existing building and construction of 1 no. dwelling and 9 no. flats. | 76, Ravensdowne, Berwick-upon-tweed, TD151DQ, (10 new units in all)

The Grammar School planning application

• History of the huts by Harriet Smart
• Our Berwick Heritage Instagram account
• Our Berwick Heritage Facebook page.
• An alternative plan, 'A Sustainable Alternative', for the back yard at the Grammar School
• Card models of the Edwardian huts for anyone to make, along with models of the two proposed buildings for comparison
• Campaign leaflet, Spring 2023
• Planning portal: publicaccess.northumberland.gov.uk/ (21/02293/LBC and 21/02292/FUL).
• Our report on the North Northumberland Local Area Planning Meeting, 2023-03-23
• Audio recordings (sorry, poor quality) of the 2023-03-23 planning meeting: one and two

Other resources

• Planning Reform: in defence of democratic planning by Town and Country Planning Association
• Map of Berwick ramparts by English Heritage: the two huts are visible, between Ness Gate and the Governor's House
• Listed Buildings and Curtilage: Historic England Advice Note 10
• Berwick-upon-Tweed: Three places, two nations, one town - English Heritage book in PDF format
• A View from the Walls by local resident John Convey
• Walled Towns Research
• Jim Herbert's Berwick Timelines history site
• Military Heritage from the Historic England site
• Great War Huts at Brook Farm Camp, in Hawstead near Bury St Edmunds
• YMCA World Map showing the great historic importance of huts