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Northdown House Northdown Park Margate Kent CT9 3TP

CON/TH/25/1357ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for approval of Condition 4 (Signs and Line Strategy) attached to Planning Permission F/TH/25/0779 for the change of use of Northdown House to a Special Educational Needs school (Use Class F1), including replacement of Perspex glazing with toughened clear glass to all windows, erection of 2.4m high security fence with gates, resurfacing of existing gravel parking areas, reopening and use of the walled garden as an outdoor play area, use of an existing outbuilding as a first aid room and associated repairs and refurbishment works (Partly retrospective).

Received
15 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cliftonville East
Agent
Urban Surveying & Design LTD
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated24 Dec
  3. Consult.26 Jan
  4. Target18 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 50 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Northdown House Northdown Park Margate Kent CT9 3TP. Thanet has handled 565 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 11 days quicker than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Cliftonville East. We hold 1,298 applications in total for the CT9 postcode area.

99% of conditions applications at Thanet District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT9 3TP
Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Civil Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 December 2025
Consultation expiry
26 January 2026
Consultation start
5 January 2026
Consultation end
26 January 2026
Last date for comments
26 January 2026
Target decision date
18 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Urban Surveying & Design LTD
Agent address
22 Church Street St. Peters Broadstairs CT10 2TT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Northdown Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: Cliftonville ED
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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

Source: Thanet

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