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Manwood Grange Sandown Road Sandwich CT13 9LA

23/00513Prior Approval Business, Hotel to SchoolApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 June 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for the change of use from boarding school house to State-Funded School (Use Class F1(a)),

Received
27 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Sandwich
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target21 Jun
  5. Decided15 Jun

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Manwood Grange Sandown Road Sandwich CT13 9LA. Dover has handled 371 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Dover's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Sandwich. We hold 631 applications in total for the CT13 postcode area.

77% of outline applications at Dover District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT13 9LA
Application type
Prior Approval Business, Hotel to School
Scale / size
Small
Parish
SANDWICH

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2023
Last date for comments
6 June 2023
Target decision date
21 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Innovation House Discovery Park Innovation Way Sandwich CT13 9ND

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 May 2023

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Sandwich - Walled TownPart of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4(2) Direction, Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1…Part of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO/23/00010Part of the site · +4 more
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    6 Nov

    Non-material amendment to planning permission 25/23/00513

    PendingNon-material amendmentFiled alongside23/00513/A
  2. 2023
    27 Apr

    Prior approval for the change of use from boarding school house to State-Funded School (Use Class F1(a)),

    This applicationApprovedOutline23/00513

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