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20 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QD

18/00097/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 26 April 2018

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from retail shop (A1 use) to a mixed class coffee shop (A1/A3 use)

Received
24 January 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet OLD
  1. Received24 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided26 Apr

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 20 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QD. Dartford has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than Dartford's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,102 applications in total for the DA3 postcode area.

93% of amendment applications at Dartford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DA3 7QD
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Longfield & New Barn P.C. OLD 2019

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2018
Consultation expiry
20 February 2018
Consultation start
30 January 2018
Consultation end
20 February 2018
Neighbour consultation start
26 April 2018
Neighbour consultation end
20 February 2018
Last date for comments
20 February 2018
Target decision date
27 March 2018
Permission expires
26 April 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Joiners Shop The Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06692214
Documents
8
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low 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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2018
    24 Jan

    Change of use from retail shop (A1 use) to a mixed class coffee shop (A1/A3 use)

    This applicationApprovedAmendment18/00097/COU
  2. 2018
    24 Jan

    Display of 1 No. fascia sign and 1 No. Projecting sign (both internally illuminated)

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside18/00098/ADV

Source: Dartford

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