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16 Hawthorn Road Sittingbourne Kent ME10 1BB

22/503263/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 18 November 2022

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing Convenience Store and Hairdressers to 2no.flats (resubmission of 22/501271/FULL).

Received
24 August 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalkwell
  1. Received24 Aug
  2. Validated24 Aug
  3. Consult.27 Sep
  4. Target22 Nov
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 16 Hawthorn Road Sittingbourne Kent ME10 1BB. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Chalkwell. 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 1BB
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 August 2022
Consultation expiry
27 September 2022
Last date for comments
27 September 2022
Target decision date
22 November 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
67 Adelaide Drive Sittingbourne Kent ME10 1XU

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 September 2022
Site notice end
27 September 2022

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2022
    24 Aug

    Change of use of existing Convenience Store and Hairdressers to 2no.flats (resubmission of 22/501271/FULL

    This applicationApprovedFull22/503263/FULL
  2. 2022
    6 Apr

    Change of use of existing Convenience Store to 2no. bedsits and Hairdressers to 1no.flat.

    RefusedFullPart of22/501271/FULL

Source: Mid Kent

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