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Birchwood Plumbing And Heating Limited 20 High Street Garlinge Margate Kent CT9 5LN

PAE/TH/25/0874Prior App from Use Class E to Use ClassRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 8 October 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Notification of a proposed change of use from retail (Class E) to 2no. studio flats (Class C3) at ground floor level

Received
6 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Garlinge
  1. Received6 Aug
  2. Validated13 Aug
  3. Consult.19 Sep
  4. Target8 Oct
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Birchwood Plumbing And Heating Limited 20 High Street Garlinge Margate Kent CT9 5LN. Thanet has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days quicker than Thanet's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Garlinge. We hold 1,299 applications in total for the CT9 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
CT9 5LN
Application type
Prior App from Use Class E to Use Class
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Civil Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 August 2025
Consultation expiry
22 September 2025
Consultation start
29 August 2025
Consultation end
19 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
1 September 2025
Neighbour consultation end
22 September 2025
Last date for comments
26 September 2025
Target decision date
8 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Great Plans
Agent address
75 Holders Hill Avenue Hendon London NW14 1ES

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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
  • Brownfield land register: Hair Inspirations 13 High StreetRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Thanet

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