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Wombwell Hall Nursing Home Wombwell Gardens Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8BL

20080695Major Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 13 March 2009

Council decision: Permitted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of single storey building comprising 32 bedrooms and communal accommodation to form additional nursing facilities for existing nursing home; construction of 10 new car parking spaces with cycle store, bin store and water tank and water pump housing, all in substitution to similar proposals permitted under application reference GR/2005/0972 (30 bed scheme) and application reference 20080081 (32 bed scheme).

Received
29 July 2008
Public comments
3
Ward
Painters Ash
  1. Received29 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Aug
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Wombwell Hall Nursing Home Wombwell Gardens Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8BL. Gravesham has handled 2,688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 227 days, 24 weeks longer than Gravesham's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Painters Ash. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the DA11 postcode area.

74% of full applications at Gravesham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DA11 8BL
Application type
Major Planning Application
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 January 2009
Consultation expiry
27 August 2008
Consultation start
6 August 2008
Consultation end
27 August 2008
Neighbour consultation start
6 August 2008
Neighbour consultation end
27 August 2008
Last date for comments
27 August 2008
Target decision date
29 April 2009
Permission expires
13 March 2014

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
The Armoury 17 High Street Kinver West Midlands DY7 6HG

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO_1990_004Part of the site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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. 2008
    29 Jul

    Erection of single storey building comprising 32 bedrooms and communal accommodation to form additional…

    This applicationApprovedFull20080695
  2. 2008
    29 Jan

    Erection of new single storey block to provide an additional 32 bedrooms and communal facilities and laying…

    ApprovedMajor Planning ApplicationPart of20080081

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