New housing plans for the site of a demolished petrol station in Sandyford have finally got the go-ahead.
Four apartments and a shop are now set to be built on the former Sandyford Service Station, having won the approval of Newcastle City Council. The old Esso station was torn down in 2015 and has since been subject to bigger development plans for 12 apartments and then for 14 en-suite student bedrooms, both of which were dropped after being deemed too big.
Euro Garages lodged new plans for the “untidy and unattractive” Sandyford Road site late last year and have now been granted planning permission from the local authority for a three-storey building, with a shop on the ground floor, two one-bedroom apartments, and two two-bed flats. City planners backed the scheme despite objections from some neighbours, who claimed the development will be an “immense danger” and lead to parking problems on an already busy route in and out of the city centre.
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