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Westgate Service Station, 26 Canterbury Road, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent, CT8 8JJ

OL/TH/04/0402Outline Planning PermissionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 July 2004

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Outline application for the demolition of petrol filling station and erection of 5No. 3-storey, flat block and associated parking

Received
7 March 2004
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received7 Mar
  2. Validated20 Apr
  3. Consult.18 May
  4. Target14 Jun
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 94 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Westgate Service Station, 26 Canterbury Road, Westgate-On-Sea, Kent, CT8 8JJ. Thanet has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 10 weeks longer than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 617 applications in total for the CT8 postcode area.

78% of outline 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 8JJ
Application type
Outline Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 April 2004
Consultation expiry
18 May 2004
Consultation start
27 April 2004
Neighbour consultation end
18 May 2004
Target decision date
14 June 2004
Decision issued
28 July 2004

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2004
    12 Aug

    Landscaping details being pursuant to outline planning permission reference OL/TH/04/0402

    ApprovedOutlineRelatedR/TH/04/1080
  2. 2004
    7 Mar

    Outline application for the demolition of petrol filling station and erection of 5No. 3-storey, flat block…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineOL/TH/04/0402

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