71 Colney Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TQ
Approved on 7 March 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions
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Proposal
Change of use of the site from a residential dwelling (C3 use class) to a children's care home (C2 use class)
- Received
- 21 August 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Dartford Borough Council
- Ward
- Newtown
- ReceivedReceived21 Aug
- ValidatedValidated6 Sep
- Consult.Consultation26 Feb
- TargetTarget Date10 Mar
- DecidedDecided7 Mar
Decided in 182 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 71 Colney Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TQ. Dartford has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 198 days, 20 weeks longer than Dartford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Newtown. We hold 984 applications in total for the DA1 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
- DA1 1TQ
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Not Parished
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 September 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 26 February 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 26 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 September 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 October 2024
- Last date for comments
- 26 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 10 March 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 93 Cotmandene Crescent Orpington Kent BR5 2RA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 185 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13337054
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Associated applications
- 202620 Feb
Change of use of the site from a residential dwelling (C3 use class) to a children's care home (C2 use class)…
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)26/00201/VCON - 202421 Aug
Change of use of the site from a residential dwelling (C3 use class) to a children's care home (C2 use class)
This applicationApprovedAmendment24/00947/COU
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