7 Edith Road, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent, CT8 8RU

CU/TH/04/0068Certificate of Lawful Use - ExistingApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 21 July 2004

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Lawful development certificate in respect of the existing use of premises for business (light industrial) purposes (Use Class B1 (c) of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987)

Received: 21 January 2004
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Thanet District Council
Ward: Westgate

ReceivedReceived21 Jan
ValidatedValidated13 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date7 Jun
DecidedDecided21 Jul

Decided in 99 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 7 Edith Road, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent, CT8 8RU. Thanet has handled 40 applications of this type. This one was decided in 182 days, 16 weeks longer than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 617 applications in total for the CT8 postcode area.

91% of all 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: CT8 8RU
Application type: Certificate of Lawful Use - Existing
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 13 April 2004
Target decision date: 7 June 2004
Decision issued: 29 July 2004

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Article 4 direction: Birchington & Rural ED
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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Source: Thanet

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