Adderstone Living Ltd is seeking detailed planning permission for the proposed residential development on land at Shaftesbury Avenue, South Shields. The development proposals is for 69no. affordable homes.

Adderstone Living Ltd are a dedicated social housing division of Adderstone Group. They have been launched to contribute towards tackling the national housing crises by building affordable and extra care housing solutions. Adderstone Living specialise in unique, land led solutions.

The proposed development is located on the site which currently contains a disused industrial building, situated to the south of Shaftesbury Avenue.

The site offers an exciting opportunity to form an extension to the existing residential community. The application is for a new proposal which seeks to address the concerns raised in relation to the previous planning application for the site. The revised proposal includes retaining the trees to the southern boundary which fronts Tavistock Place and Salcombe Avenue. The revised plan also shows that there will be no access granted from Tavistock Place.

The proposed development is for a detailed planning permission for residential development of 69 affordable dwellings with associated parking and landscaping on land south of Shaftesbury Road, South Shields. The proposals will include a mix of the following;

• 31 2-bedroom homes;
• 28 3-bedroom homes; and
• 10 4-bedroom homes.

The proposal includes off-street parking for each dwelling with 1 space for each 2-bed home and 2 spaces for each 3 and 4-bed home. There will be 23 visitor parking spaces throughout the site.

Care has been taken to retain as many trees as possible and introduce new soft and hard landscaping across the site to create an attractive housing development.

Your views are very important to us and will be influential in the development proposals as they are taken forward.

Please note that there will be further opportunity to comment on the proposals through South Tyneside Council’s formal planning consultation process once a detailed application is submitted. A copy of the consultation details can be downloaded here.

You can make representations completing the survey below or by contacting us at

By email; alexander@hedleyplanning.co.uk
By telephone: 0191 580 5105
By writing to us at: Hedley Planning Services Unit 3, Hexham Enterprise Hub, Burn Lane, Hexham, NE46 3HY