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47 High Street Blue Town Sheerness Kent ME12 1RN

20/501697/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 13 November 2020

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of a ground floor to residential, construction of a first floor extension and division of existing residential maisonette to provide an additional 3 no. dwellings.

Received
13 May 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sheerness
  1. Received13 May
  2. Validated13 May
  3. Consult.5 Oct
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 184 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 47 High Street Blue Town Sheerness Kent ME12 1RN. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 184 days, 18 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Sheerness. We hold 817 applications in total for the ME12 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
ME12 1RN
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Sheerness Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 May 2020
Consultation expiry
11 June 2020
Last date for comments
5 October 2020
Target decision date
13 November 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Gregory Bunce 35 Albion Place Maidstone Kent ME14 5DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
184 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 May 2020
Advertisement expiry
11 June 2020
Site notice start
19 May 2020
Site notice end
9 June 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08615636
Documents
23
Constraints
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)
  • Conservation area: Sheerness : Royal Naval Dockyard and Bluetown
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Mid Kent

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