Buckmaster Memorial Home 7 Western Esplanade Broadstairs Kent CT10 1TG
Approved on 12 March 2025
Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use from former care home to up to 17no. bedroom residential family centre (Use Class C2)
- Received
- 25 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Thanet District Council
- Ward
- Viking
- ReceivedReceived25 Dec
- ValidatedValidated4 Feb
- Consult.Consultation27 Feb
- TargetTarget Date1 Apr
- DecidedDecided12 Mar
Decided in 36 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Buckmaster Memorial Home 7 Western Esplanade Broadstairs Kent CT10 1TG. Thanet has handled 2,752 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 7 days longer than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Viking. We hold 304 applications in total for the CT10 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
- CT10 1TG
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Broadstairs And St Peters
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 February 2025
- Consultation start
- 6 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 27 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 February 2025
- Last date for comments
- 7 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 1 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Innovation House Discovery Park Innovation Way Sandwich CT13 9ND
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 16
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Article 4 direction: Broadstairs 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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© 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.
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