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Smeeds Farm Church Street Whitstable Kent CT5 1PJ

CA/25/00585Approved

Approved on 20 August 2026

Council decision: GRANTED

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demolition of redundant commercial/light industrial buildings and felling of trees within the conservation area, and erection of 9 dwellings with associated landscaping, car parking and new vehicular access onto Castle Road.

Submitted
31 March 2025
Ward
Chestfield
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated31 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 507 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Smeeds Farm Church Street Whitstable Kent CT5 1PJ. Canterbury has handled 6,108 applications of this type. This one was decided in 507 days, 64 weeks longer than Canterbury's typical decision time. The site is in the Church Street conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 98 applications across Chestfield. We hold 846 applications in total for the CT5 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CT5 1PJ
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Vic Hester

Additional information

Documents
93

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: CHURCH STREET (WHITSTABLE ) registered 06.11.1991
  • Listed building: CHURCH STREET (WHITSTABLE ) registered 06.11.1991On or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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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