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23, Rose Walk, Hawkinge, CT18 7NW
Single storey rear extension.
Lower Wall Workshops, Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, CT21 4NN
Retrospective change of use of units 1, 3 and 6 to car bodywork shop/repairs and car mechanics (Use Class B2: General Industrial).
Clifton Gardens Open Space, Clifton Gardens, Folkestone
Works to trees in a conservation area comprising of T2 Laburnum fell to ground level and grind out stump. T4 Sycamore remove epicormic growth by a maximum of 1 metres. G6 Holm Oak crown lift to 3 metr
Ragstone Barn, Gibraltar Lane, Hawkinge, CT18 7AE
Works to trees subject to TPO No 13 of 2002 comprising of T1 Beech lateral reduction by a maximum of 5 metres. G1 Beech vertical reduction by a maximum of approximately 3 metres.
Land Rear of 1-3 Keepers Lodge, Port Lympne, Aldington Road, Lympne, Hythe, CT21 4PD
Works to trees subject to TPO No 04 of 2018 comprising of T1 Sycamore fell to ground level.
Land Adjoining Princess Royal Inn, South Street, Folkestone
Installation of 1 bronze life size (plus 10%) statue of Noel Redding, on a portland stone plinth, cemented into the soil with foundations.
Shelford, Dog Kennel Lane, Lyminge, CT18 8ER
Erection of single storey rear extension and detached workshop.
12 Wellfield Road, Folkestone, CT20 2PJ
Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 26/0913/FH to allow for the installation of window.
6 Old London Road, Hythe, CT21 4DG
Approval of details pursuant to condition 4 (part a and b) (slope instability) of planning application 25/0168/FH.
Land Opposite 1 St Katherines Crescent, Sellindge, Ashford, TN25 6FU
Works to trees subject to TPO No 10 of 2018 comprising of T1 Sycamore fell to ground level.
Land Adjoining Sunrise, Bossingham Road, Stelling Minnis
Approval of details pursuant to condition 3 (water usage), 4 (EV charging), 5 (sustainable construction), 6 (ext finishing materials), 7 (landscaping), 9 (Biodiversity Enhancement Plan), 13 (ext light
4 Seaway Gardens, St Marys Bay, Romney Marsh, TN29 0RY
Single-storey side/rear extension, incorporating the footprint of the existing garage, to provide additional habitable living space.
Shandon, St Andrews Road, Littlestone, New Romney, TN28 8PZ
Non Material Amendment to planning permission 23/1161/FH to allow for alterations to the roof.
2, Summer Close, Hythe, CT21 4DR
Single storey rear & side extension.
Coast Cottage, 6, Range Road, Hythe, CT21 6HQ
Proposed change of use of land to residential curtilage (retrospective).
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When Folkestone & Hythe District 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.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council, raw rate
24.7%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
30.1%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
5.4 percentage points below expected. Folkestone & Hythe District Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
383 appeals counted, 365 judged either way (90 allowed, 275 dismissed), 18 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 | 218 | 211 | 52 | 24.6% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 96 | 94 | 29 | 30.9% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 20 | 16 | 1 | 6.3% | 13.5% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 16 | 16 | 3 | 18.8% | 36.9% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 11 | 10 | 3 | 30% | 25% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0% | 36% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 4 | 3 | 1 | Too few judged | 33.3% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 4 | 4 | 1 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
| Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 8.1% |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 27.6% |
| High Hedges | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 28.5% |
| Environmental | 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.
Folkestone & Hythe District 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.
Folkestone & Hythe District 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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