Category Archives: Local Life

Please see attached from STC. Mr Pullen, having got his planning permission is now wanting to sell the property.

FAO Melanie Todd SENT VIA EMAIL melanietodd@me.com Date: 29 March 2016 Dear Sirs, The Beacon Pub, 100-101 Greens Place, South Shields – S91 (2) Notice of Listing The Council received your application for the above property to be included on … Continue reading →

    Clarification of plot boundaries  – submission by the Agent, Gary Craig, of Gary Craig Building services in Whitburn: ST/0746/15/FUL

South Shields landmark pub The Beacon is to be turned into apartments Shields Gazette 06:00 Wednesday 03 February 2016 Photo by Mick Dawson One of South Tyneside’s oldest pubs is to be turned into a new apartments block. The Beacon, … Continue reading →

Posted in the Shields Gazette 11:25 Monday 15 October 2012 A HUGE cannabis farm worth a potential six-figure sum has been smashed by police in South Tyneside. Officers received a tip-off about the farm, at a flat in Green’s Place … Continue reading →

The ’50 space’ car park behind the Beacon’ Comment by JP0224 : 9:56 PM on 01/12/2015 “People complaint about parking clearly don’t know the area, there is a car park behind the building for 50 cars that is never over … Continue reading →

07:50 Tuesday 01 December 2015 Verity Ward wrote: One of South Tyneside’s oldest pubs is facing demolition to make way for a new apartments block. The Beacon in Greens Place, Lawe Top, South Shields, has been serving drinks since the … Continue reading →

The Beacon – article from the Pontefract and Castleford Express. There is an application in to knock it down and redevelop it. Gary Craig, of Gary Craig Building services in Whitburn, is the architect behind the transformation which, if given … Continue reading →