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14 New Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3AP
5 day exemption, T1-beech tree, removal of dead tree in rear garden.
Verne Cottage Kake Street Waltham Kent CT4 5SB
3x hawthorns, reduce the height of the trees by 15% located in the rear garden. 2x Holly, reduce the height of the trees by 15% located in the rear garden. 1 fir tree, reduce the height of the trees b
5A St Peters Street Canterbury Kent CT1 2AT
Change of use of first floor store to residential together with roof light to side elevation.
Courtland House The Drove Chestfield Kent CT5 3NY
Removal of condition 8 (garage) of planning permission CA//04/01634/FUL for erection of dwelling with associated parking.
Broadway Green Farm Broadway Petham Kent CT4 5RX
Application for Listed Building Consent for internal alterations including like for like replacement of plaster, plasterboard, timber panelling, floorboards, skirtings, architraves, cupboards and fini
4 Church Lane Adisham Kent CT3 3JH
Silver Birch located to the rear of the propoerty - 4 metre reduction.
50 The Street Kingston Kent CT4 6JE
TPO No 6/1968 - T1) Sycamore 3m crown reduction.
7 St Stephen's Green Canterbury Kent CT2 7JU
Yew Tree in front garden, to be trimmed by approx 1 foot to regain shape.
68 New Ruttington Lane Canterbury Kent CT1 1UB
Retrospective erection of a new steel-framed metal warehouse for use as storage/workshop.
Land At Former Sturry Road Social Club East Street Canterbury Kent CT1 1EE
Details submitted pursuant to conditions 11 (CEMP), 12 (Reptile Mitigation Strategy) and 17 (Detailed Sustainable Surface Water Drainage Scheme) of planning permission CA/24/01313/FUL
5A St Peters Street Canterbury Kent CT1 2AT
Application for Listed Building Consent for external alterations including roof light to side elevation.
Edge Of Beyond The Street Barham Kent CT4 6NY
5 day exemption Cherry tree located to the rear of the property - fell.
97 Whitstable Road Canterbury Kent CT2 8EE
T1 Goat Willow located in the rear garden - fell. T2 Silver Birch located in the rear garden - fell.
Abbots Barton Hotel 36 New Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3DU
Single-storey orangery extension together with patio, wheelchair accessible ramp, external lighting and air-conditioning units.
Tyler Hill Memorial Hall Summer Lane Tyler Hill Kent CT2 9NJ
Application for lawful development certificate for proposed boulle pitch with additional play equipment and safety surface following demolition of existing boulle pitch.
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When Canterbury City Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Canterbury City Council, raw rate
21.2%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
28.8%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
7.6 percentage points below expected. Canterbury City Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
548 appeals counted, 532 judged either way (113 allowed, 419 dismissed), 16 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 361 | 355 | 67 | 18.9% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 85 | 85 | 29 | 34.1% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 54 | 46 | 4 | 8.7% | 13.5% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 16 | 16 | 4 | 25% | 25% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 15 | 15 | 7 | 46.7% | 36.9% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 8 | 8 | 1 | 12.5% | 33.3% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 4 | 4 | 0 | Too few judged | 36% |
| High Hedges | 2 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 8.1% |
| Community Infrastructure Levy Appeal | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 25.2% |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Canterbury City Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Canterbury City Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Canterbury City Council planning portal.
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