Application - 2025/1393/01/PSI - Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road - Dene and South Gosforth Ward

December 12, 2025 Planning Committee (Committee) Approved View on council website

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Summary

...to grant planning permission for the erection of a 3-storey clinical trials facility, a cycle hub, and associated works at Freeman Hospital, subject to a section 106 agreement securing SuDS maintenance, a training employment plan, and monitoring costs, as well as 35 specific conditions regarding design, landscaping, ecology, highways, and sustainability.

Full council record
Content

Planning permission for application reference 2025/1393/01/PSI
was granted:
 
 
i. 
Subject to a section 106 agreement to
secure:
 

SuDS £10k maintenance and
management;

Training employment plan; and

Associated monitoring costs arising from the above
planning obligations.
 
 
ii. 
Subject to the following conditions:
 
1. 
3 year consent;
2. 
List of approved drawings;
3. 
Details of Site Investigation;
4. 
Submission of remediation scheme;
5. 
Implementation of Approved Remediation
Scheme;
6. 
Reporting of Unexpected Contamination;
7. 
Details of Construction Method Statement;
8. 
Details of Construction Ecological Management
Plan;
9. 
Large scale details of building;
10. 
Details of design and materials of cycle hub
building;
11. 
Sample materials;
12. 
Large scale details and materials of rooftop plant
and equipment enclosures;
13. 
Details of manifestation to glazing on south east
elevation;
14. 
Details of tree protection;
15. 
Details of proposed trees and tree pits and
proximity to existing and proposed surface water infrastructure
ensuring above and below ground detailing for soil volumes and soil
specifications provide adequate tree rooting environments for long
term establishment and are coordinated with civil engineering
performance and service runs including drainage;
16. 
Details of drainage components and SuDS;
17. 
Details of Investigation of existing drainage
pipe;
18. 
Details of footpath and attenuation tank;
19. 
Details of root protection;
20. 
Details of drainage validation;
21. 
Details of hard and soft landscaping, implementation
and maintenance;
22. 
Details of shared use path;
23. 
No tree removal other than in accordance with
approved plan;
24. 
Details of a Biodiversity Gain Plan;
25. 
Details of a Habitat Management and Monitoring
Plan;
26. 
Details of 30 year ecology and landscape habitat
management plan;
27. 
Details of external lighting and CCTV;
28. 
Details of buildings sustainability
measures;
29. 
Details of S278 for off site highway works to
wagonway;
30. 
Details of cycle parking to be submitted;
31. 
Details of Highway Works:
a. 
Shared use path;
b. 
Amendments to PROW Bridleway 34
Newcastle;
32. 
Refuse – implementation of refuse
storage;
33. 
No external refuse outside of the
premises;
34. 
Details of Travel Plan to demonstrate that the site
has been incorporated into the existing travel plan for the wider
Freeman Hospital Site;
35. 
Plant noise no more than 5db(A) above background
levels at site boundary.
 
 
iii. 
It was also agreed that delegated authority
be given to the Assistant Director Planning, in consultation with
the Chair and Vice Chairs of the Planning Committee, to amend, add
or omit conditions where appropriate, to ensure the application
complies with relevant development plan policies and national
planning guidance.
 
 
iv. 
It was also agreed that in the event that a
satisfactory section 106 agreement covering the issues raised above
is not received by 31 March 2026 that the application be refused
for its failure to make adequate provision in this regard contrary
to Policy DEL1 of the CSUCP unless an extension of time is agreed
to the satisfaction of the Assistant Director Planning, in
consultation with the Chair and Vice Chairs of the Planning
Committee.
 
 
v. 
It was also agreed that delegated authority
be given to the Assistant Director Planning, in consultation with
the Chair and Vice Chairs of Planning Committee, to amend, add or
omit conditions and heads of terms of the section 106 legal
agreement, where appropriate, to ensure the application complies
with relevant development plan policies and national planning
guidance.
 

Related Meeting

Planning Committee - Friday 12th December, 2025 10.00 am on December 12, 2025

Supporting Documents

7. Freeman Hospital - FINAL.pdf
7.1 Freeman Hospital - PLAN.pdf
7.1.1 Freeman Hospital - PLAN - AMENDED.pdf

Details

OutcomeRecommendations Approved
Decision date12 Dec 2025