Top Flat, 58 Station Road, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent, CT8 8QY

F/TH/03/1391Full Planning PermissionApproved

Full

Approved on 1 March 2004

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from residential to office use.

Received: 8 December 2003
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Thanet District Council
Ward: Westgate

ReceivedReceived8 Dec
ValidatedValidated6 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date1 Mar
DecidedDecided1 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Top Flat, 58 Station Road, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent, CT8 8QY. Thanet has handled 2,752 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 2 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.

87% of full 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 8QY
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 6 January 2004
Consultation expiry: 23 January 2004
Consultation start: 9 January 2004
Target decision date: 1 March 2004

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 23 January 2004

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: Westgate On Sea Conservation Area
Article 4 direction: Birchington & Rural 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.

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Source: Thanet

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