Plans to turn a Cleadon residential property into a dental surgery are rejected
Plans to turn a residential property in Cleadon into a dental surgery have been rejected.
South Tyneside Council has turned down an application to create a new surgery for the second time amid concerns about a shortage of parking. Last year, an application to change the use of the property, which is located off Front Street in Cleadon village, was rejected, and the proposal has once again been rebuffed.
Twenty letters of support have been received from neighbours and local residents, but planning officers are concerned about a lack of parking. In a revised planning application submitted by Cleadon Village Dental Practice, provisions were made to create two parking spaces by removing a boundary wall, but the submission still poses issues related to highway safety, according to the council. The proposal also suggested leasing four spaces off the Little Theatre and reimbursing patients who used the nearby pay and display car park.
In a notice posted on the 20th March, planning officers suggested that there were issues related to parking facilities, the free flow of traffic, and uncertainty about the number of staff who would be on the premises at any given time.
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