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UK: Margate Football Club has submitted a planning application for a 59-bed coliving building with new South Stand terrace, following demolition of the former South Stand terrace and car park.
Planning documents say the aim is to create the coliving 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”.
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 – which is sponsored by the band The Libertines – 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 its Holiday Inn Express brand.
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-side and one full-size all weather pitch and associated parking and landscaping.
Highlights:
- Margate Football Club has submitted a planning application for a 59-bed coliving building with new South Stand terrace
- The club says the scheme “addresses documented local need—particularly for single‑person households facing affordability and quality issues”
- 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
