Margate Football Club has lodged its planning application to build a 59 bed co-living building with new south end terrace following demolition of existing south end terrace and car park.
Planning documents say the aim is to create the co‑living rooms with high‑quality communal facilities and professional management on an urban brownfield plot at the south stand of Margate FC.
The club adds that it “addresses documented local need—particularly for single‑person households facing affordability and quality issues.”
Application documents say co-living is distinct from “HMOs and hotels by scale, depth of shared facilities, and minimum tenancy length (3 months-plus).”
The property will be let with an agreement with the council “prioritising eligible local single households, including those in temporary accommodation, subject to suitability assessments.”
There will be shared kitchen units per 15 residents, laundry facilities and a proposed 57 parking spaces and secure cycle parking.
Margate FC previously secured planning permission for a 120-bed hotel, new stands, restaurant, café, club shop and car parking following consultation with the Secretary of State in 2021. That application was developed with hotel partner IHG Hotels and the brand Holiday Inn Express.
Prior to that, in 2012, the club had a scheme for a football stadium, an 80 bed hotel, fitness club, children’s club, children’s play area, theme bar, conference and banqueting suites, hospitality boxes, admin offices, boardroom, 10 five a sides and one full size all weather pitch and associated parking and landscaping.
The latest application was submitted in February and went live on Thanet council’s planning portal on March 23.
A decision is yet to be made.,
Documents can be viewed on the planning portal, reference F/TH/26/0147
This is another puzzling example in Thanet generally of so many proposals being granted planning permission, yet, once received, nothing actually happens for years more, or not at all before that permission runs out. The planning process is an expensive one, and most private individuals don’t progress plans in the first place if the funding is not in place to actually get on with the work.
Yes – but land and/or buildings with extant planning consent have a higher value as an asset. That in turn leads to higher dividends to shareholders or increased asking price if sold.
Is ”co-living” another term for HMO – but one likely to attract less controversy ?
All for a load of halfwits kicking a ball around a field.
At least football pays its own way
Those halfwits PC are doing a hell of a lot for the local community, so before you open your mouth check it out.
By building flats on what is effectively part of the park?
That land belongs to MFC
They do now, but only thanks to TDC’s usual poor decisions. From 1929 until 2019 they leased it from the council.
Probably a sport to physical for you Checkers ?
Guess your choice of sport would be same sex kiss chase ?
One only has to look at the planning applications Tesco’s have made for their stores at Newington and their Extra Store in Broadstairs to see the waste of their money and planning departments time at the residents expense also.