Apollo Taxis 5 Railway Place Gravesend Kent DA12 1AP
Proposal
To make permanent a granted temporary permission for change of use of ground floor from Solicitors Office to a Taxi Office (Sui Generis)
- Received
- 16 March 2022
- Decided
- 17 May 2022 · Permitted
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Gravesham Borough Council
- Ward
- Pelham
- ReceivedReceived16 Mar
- ValidatedValidated22 Mar
- Consult.Consultation26 Apr
- TargetTarget Date17 May
- DecidedDecided17 May
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Apollo Taxis 5 Railway Place Gravesend Kent DA12 1AP. Gravesham has handled 2,688 applications of this type and approves 75% of them, typically deciding them in 59 days. This one was decided in 62 days, 3 days longer than Gravesham's median. The site is in the Aylsham conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Pelham. We hold 1,483 applications in total for the DA12 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: King Street, Gravesend Conservation Area
- Brownfield land register: 24 Stone Street Gravesend Kent DA11 0NPRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.
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