Westgate On Sea Railway Station Station Road Westgate On Sea Kent CT8 8QY

PA/TH/19/1380Prior ApprovalApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 October 2019

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for prior approval for the installation and replacement of railway bridge under Part 18 Class A of Town Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015

Received: 1 October 2019
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Thanet District Council
Ward: Westgate-on-Sea

ReceivedReceived1 Oct
ValidatedValidated1 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date26 Nov
DecidedDecided29 Oct

Decided in 28 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application at Westgate On Sea Railway Station Station Road Westgate On Sea Kent CT8 8QY. Thanet has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 6 weeks quicker 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 41 applications across Westgate-on-Sea. 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 8QY
Application type: Prior Approval
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Westgate Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 October 2019
Target decision date: 26 November 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 13

Site constraints

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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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© 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.

Source: Thanet

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