Former fire station site and associated land which ceased operating in 2009. Following this, the land was sold, offering a chance for urban infill redevelopment once cleared. The site has been operating as an MOT centre and to provide space for various community facilities, a change permitted in 2012 (12/01231/FUL). The latter included space for a community-based arts organisation and radio station and offices. A more recent application was approved in 2017 for a mixed-use scheme, general industrial use and to extend existing use of premises to include car sales (17/01879/FUL). Scope for small-scale residential scheme could return in the future but the site not available at the current time as there is an existing business remains operating from the site and there has been no recent indication of relocation and/or change in circumstances. No longer considered developable/developable and future housing delivery is discounted in the SHLAA.
Ashington Fire Station, Morpeth Road, Ashington