Old Coal Yard, Northumberland Road, Tweedmouth

Underused land associated with the former goods yard at Tweedmouth station. The vast majority of the site is vacant and overgrown. Site offers opportunity for extensive redevelopment of railway land, adjacent to ECML, and yield considered to reflect urban location. Access limitations would need to be successfully overcome by a successful scheme and remediation is likely to be required due to historic use. The site has a long running planning history and has been subject to an number of earlier proposals. An initial application for 120 homes was refused (N/08/B/0926). A revised scheme for 71 homes was permitted in 2012 but has now lapsed (11/02030/OUT). A reserved matters application relating to this outline approval was submitted but then withdrawn (15/01307/REM). Landowner has confirmed that the site remains available for redevelopment and a new scheme has been considered. Currently considered developable in the medium- to longer-term (6 to 10 years). The site is also allocated for residential development in the Northumberland Local Plan (2022) .