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First Floor Flat 23 Marine Gardens Margate Kent CT9 1UH

CU/TH/25/0855Certificate of Lawful Devpt - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 15 September 2025

Council decision: Refuse CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for a certificate of lawful use for Flat 1 (First Floor Flat), 23 Marine Gardens, Margate CT9 1UH has been used as separate residential property since 2019

Received
30 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Margate Central
Agent
Clark Designs Ltd
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated31 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Sep
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 46 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at First Floor Flat 23 Marine Gardens Margate Kent CT9 1UH. Thanet has handled 40 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 3 weeks quicker than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
CT9 1UH
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Devpt - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Civil Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 July 2025
Target decision date
25 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Clark Designs Ltd
Agent address
39 Reculver Road HERNE BAY CT6 6LQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
1

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: Margate Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 21, Marine GardensOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • Article 4 direction: Margate ED
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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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