Accordingly, the Secretary of State agrees with the Inspector’s recommendation. He hereby allows the client’s appeal and grants planning permission for residential development (450 houses including affordable housing), local community facilities including shop (A1) and surgery (D1), extension to the Rising Sun Country Park with associated habitat, landscape and recreational improvements, and works to the surrounding highways infrastructure on land at Scaffold Hill Farm, Whitley Road, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 9ST, subject to the conditions listed in the Annex of this letter.