38 - 40 Grosvenor Place Margate Kent CT9 1UW
Approved on 1 April 2026
Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for approval of Conditions 4 (Fixings to Railings), 6 (Solar Panels) and 7 (Crime Prevention) attached to Planning Permission F/TH/26/0020 for the change of use from office use (Use Class E) to short-term residential support centre (Sui Generis) providing 8no. bedrooms, shared kitchen, bathroom and laundry facilities, management office, replacement windows, doors and external alterations, with supporting landscaping and infrastructure.
- Received
- 25 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Thanet District Council
- Ward
- Margate Central
- ReceivedReceived25 Feb
- ValidatedValidated26 Feb
- Consult.Consultation30 Mar
- TargetTarget Date23 Apr
- DecidedDecided1 Apr
Decided in 34 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at 38 - 40 Grosvenor Place Margate Kent CT9 1UW. Thanet has handled 565 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 5 weeks quicker than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Margate Central. 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).
Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address
Application details
- Postcode
- CT9 1UW
- Application type
- Conditions
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Civil Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 30 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 30 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 30 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 23 April 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Margate Conservation Area
- Article 4 direction: Margate ED
- Brownfield land register: Shoe Express 108 High StreetRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.
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.
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Associated applications
- 202625 Feb
Application for approval of Conditions 4 (Fixings to Railings), 6 (Solar Panels) and 7 (Crime Prevention)…
This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/TH/26/0191 - 20268 Jan
Variation of condition 2 and removal of condition 5 of planning permission F/TH/25/0626
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)Part ofF/TH/26/0020
Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202611 Jun
Change of use from office (Use Class E) to 11no. 1-bed self-contained flats (Use Class C3) to provide…
ApprovedFull Planning PermissionF/TH/26/0628 - 202529 Sep
Application for approval of Condition 3 (Foul/Surface Water Drainage) attached to Planning Permission…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/TH/25/1053 - 202530 May
Change of use from office use (Use Class E) to short-term residential support centre (Sui Generis) providing…
ApprovedFull Planning PermissionF/TH/25/0626
Source: Thanet
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