22 High Street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4PD
Approved on 8 April 2015
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Retrospective change of use of ground floor sandwich bar to cafe (A3 use) with proposed 1st floor seating area.
- Received
- 21 October 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Ward
- Woodstock
- Agent
- Woodstock Associates
- ReceivedReceived21 Oct
- ValidatedValidated21 Oct
- Consult.Consultation26 Mar
- TargetTarget Date16 Dec
- DecidedDecided8 Apr
Decided in 169 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 22 High Street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4PD. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 169 days, 16 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the High Street, Sittingbourne conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Woodstock. We hold 2,142 applications in total for the ME10 postcode area.
85% of full applications at Maidstone Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ME10 4PD
- Application type
- Full
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 October 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 26 December 2014
- Last date for comments
- 26 March 2015
- Target decision date
- 16 December 2014
- Application expires
- 16 December 2014
- Permission expires
- 8 April 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Woodstock Associates
- Architect profile
- WOODSTOCK DESIGN ASSOCIATES LTD
- Agent address
- 53 Woodstock Road Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4HJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 5 December 2014
- Advertisement expiry
- 26 December 2014
- Site notice start
- 1 December 2014
- Site notice end
- 22 December 2014
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-03736556
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: SittingbournePart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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Source: Mid Kent
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