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Beach Walk Car Park Whitstable Kent

CA/24/00653Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 19 July 2024

Council decision: GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Single storey building for use as Coastwatch lookout station.

Received
19 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tankerton
  1. Received19 Apr
  2. Validated19 Apr
  3. Consult.14 Jun
  4. Target14 Jun
  5. Decided19 Jul

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Beach Walk Car Park Whitstable Kent. Canterbury has handled 2,757 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Canterbury's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Tankerton.

96% of full applications at Canterbury City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 April 2024
Last date for comments
14 June 2024
Target decision date
14 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
59 Lakeside Avenue Faversham Kent ME13 7FE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Canterbury

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