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1 Countess Mountbatten Court Canterbury Road Westgate On Sea Kent CT8 8NQ

F/TH/19/1606Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 12 February 2020

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of from 1No three bedroom maisonette into 2No one-bed flats together with landscaping works to provide additional 2 parking spaces.

Received
26 November 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westgate-on-Sea
  1. Received26 Nov
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 1 Countess Mountbatten Court Canterbury Road Westgate On Sea Kent CT8 8NQ. Thanet has handled 2,752 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 8 days longer than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Westgate-on-Sea. 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 8NQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Westgate Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2019
Consultation expiry
7 February 2020
Consultation start
6 January 2020
Consultation end
27 January 2020
Neighbour consultation start
6 January 2020
Neighbour consultation end
27 January 2020
Last date for comments
11 February 2020
Target decision date
13 February 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 January 2020
Advertisement expiry
7 February 2020

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Westgate On Sea South Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: Birchington & Rural ED
  • Tree Preservation OrderProtected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: St Peters Prestbytery 117 Canterbury Road Westgate On SeaRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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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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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