LPA Profile
What we hold on a single planning authority: appeal behaviour, what they refuse on, which policies they cite, and how current their local plan is. For the national league table and 47-year statistical history, see Council Performance. New: which refusal reasons survive appeal here — measured from real Inspectorate decision letters.
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
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How this council decides
Measured against the published determination target on 1,190 decisions. Average window from valid date to target: 74 days (the statutory period is 56 days for most applications, 91 for majors).
(4+ days before target)
(final 3 days)
from valid to decision
This authority is mixed: a substantial share of decisions land after the statutory target, so treat the target as indicative.
Which day decisions land
| Mon | 11.5% | |
| Tue | 20.2% | |
| Wed | 19.2% | |
| Thu | 20.8% | |
| Fri | 28.2% |
An even working week is 20% a day. Amber marks a day carrying 26% or more.
By application type
| Type | Decisions | After target | On deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full | 528 | 29% | 59% |
| Trees | 186 | 39% | 6% |
| Conditions | 142 | 46% | 10% |
| Amendment | 87 | 23% | 53% |
| Outline | 68 | 32% | 44% |
| Householder Application | 28 | 14% | 75% |
| Other | 25 | 0% | 68% |
| Heritage | 20 | 10% | 75% |
By case officer
| Officer | Decisions | After target | On deadline | Avg days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Redfern | 23 | 30% | 13% | 38 |
| Samantha Elsender | 20 | 10% | 70% | 64 |
Officers are not allocated cases at random — a caseload weighted towards majors or contentious sites will run longer than one of householder applications, and that is the case mix rather than the officer. Read this as context for your own case, not as a ranking of individuals.
What "after the target" means. Published data cannot distinguish an agreed extension of time from a target that was simply missed — both appear the same way. This measures when the decision was issued relative to the statutory target, and nothing more. Deadline data is currently available for London authorities only.
Case officers in our data
| Officer | Applications | Refused |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Redfern | 65 | 0 |
| Samantha Elsender | 43 | 1 |
| Rowshon Uddin | 34 | 1 |
| Sarah Howard | 33 | 1 |
| Aimee Gregory | 28 | 2 |
| Richard Smith | 27 | 1 |
| Amy Dunbar | 24 | 2 |
| Mark O'Sullivan | 22 | 5 |
Counts come from the applications we have scraped, which is a fraction of each officer's caseload. Treat as a sample of who is active, not as a performance measure of an individual.
Agents most active here
| Agent / firm | Applications |
|---|---|
| Olivers Tree Services Ltd | 47 |
| Gateshead Council | 44 |
| Nicholson Nairn Architects | 24 |
| Panda Design | 19 |
| Lichfields | 18 |
| Spectrum Design and Planning | 17 |
| Architects Group | 16 |
| THD Ltd | 13 |
Development plan
Local Plan Review - March 2025
Adoption date not published in the national register
Plan documents
National statistics for this authority →
Councils with data on file
On the numbers. The refusal rate, officers and agents here are computed from the applications PlanningCore has collected for this authority — for most councils that is a recent sample rather than the full register, and the date range above tells you which. The appeal overturn rate comes from Planning Inspectorate decisions and covers a much longer period. Use the national statistics page for complete, official volumes.