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Scouts ask to upgrade Ford campsite

Berwick Borough Council is to be asked to give approval to the North Northumberland Scout Association to upgrade its camp site at Ford. A spokesman for the association said the project was likely to cost in the region of £25,000....

Posted by The Journal on January 6, 2009 10:43 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:33 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:32 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:30 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:28 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in Northumberland could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of homes in...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:23 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:21 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 10:16 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 9:20 AM

Plans for coach park near Morpeth

Plans by development company Dransfield Properties to create a coach park next to the A197 road on the outskirts of Morpeth are expected to be approved by Castle Morpeth councillors next week. The facility, next to The Mount former old...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 9:20 AM

Hope for Northumberland villagers priced out of homes

Villages, hamlets and market towns in the North East could have more homes built as planning controls are relaxed. It is thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to order councils to take a relaxed approach to the building of...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 9:17 AM

Berwick chicken farm row will go up before beak

A row over a chicken farm is going all the way to the High Court. Dominic and Alice Elsworth, of Whistlebare Farm, Bowsden, near Berwick, have started judicial review proceedings after councillors consented to a free-range unit of up to...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 9:17 AM

New hotel plan for Berwick

Councillors in Berwick have been told that negotiations are continuing with a view to a new hotel being built on the northern outskirts of the town. Berwick Corporation Freeman Trustees have confirmed that the sale of land to a prospective...

Posted by The Journal on January 5, 2009 9:17 AM

Bid for golf range drives worried villagers to object

Fears that someone could be hit and injured by a flying golf ball look set to scupper plans for a new driving range on the edge of Heddon. A field next to Heddon-on-the-Wall has been earmarked as the location for...

Posted by The Journal on January 2, 2009 4:23 PM

Have your say on Ponteland town centre plans

People in Ponteland will get the chance to view and comment on plans to regenerate the town centre at a special public consultation event in February. Two separate developers have drawn up proposals for the multi-million pound revamp of the...

Posted by The Journal on December 31, 2008 12:23 PM

Burgham Park makeover plans revealed

Plans for a £12m sports club makeover have been revealed. Owners of Burgham Park Golf and Leisure Club, near Felton, are hoping to create a luxury hotel and golf academy. A planning application has been submitted to Castle Morpeth Council...

Posted by The Journal on December 29, 2008 11:34 AM

Plans for new units at Berwick business park

Plans have been entered for the erection of seven new units on a Northumberland business park. Michael Guthrie has applied to Berwick Borough Council for planning permission for the industrial units on a plot at the Ramparts park in Berwick....

Posted by The Journal on December 24, 2008 9:00 AM

Bid to open takeaway in Seahouses

Plans have been entered for the creation of a restaurant and hot food takeaway in a seaside village. Mohammed Ahmed has lodged a planning application for change of use of premises on Main Street in Seahouses....

Posted by The Journal on December 24, 2008 8:48 AM

Blyth takeaway bid looks set to fail

A bid for a Blyth restaurant to also function as a hot food takeaway looks doomed to failure. Planning councillors in Blyth Valley are being recommended to refuse an application from Scaramangas restaurant to remove a condition of the original...

Posted by The Journal on December 23, 2008 10:54 AM

Bede academy extension bid

Education bosses are seeking permission to add a two-storey extension to the secondary element of the £30m Bede Academy, which is currently being built on the site of Blyth's former Ridley High School in Sixth Avenue, Northumberland. The extension will...

Posted by The Journal on December 23, 2008 9:17 AM