Site was originally built as a convalescence hospital in the 1930s, but in latter years had been used as office and educational space by Northumberland County Council, More recently the site has been vacant. Aside from the former hospital buildings, the remainder of the site consists of open space. Despite a somewhat peripheral location outside of a defined settlement, it offers opportunity for redevelopment of a large site that is partly brownfield in nature. Demolition of the redundant buildings is required. Permission was approved for clearance and erection of 89 dwellings in 2017 (16/02336/FUL). Site is a mix of brownfield and greenfield land. Brownfield parcel (3.12ha) represents around 30% of the site area but the new development is limited to the footprint of the former buildings. For indicative purposes in the BF Register, the original SHLAA site (ref 3034) is split to reflect brownfield and greenfield elements - total area of 10.93ha. Overall development complete in 2020/21.
Hepscott Park (parcel)