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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Folkestone and Hythe Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Apr 2004 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Potten Cottage, Main Road, Sellindge, Ashford, TN25 6EQ
Received 14 Sept 2022St Peters Church Of England Primary School, The Durlocks, Folkestone, CT19 6AH
Received 14 Sept 202234 Downs Road, Folkestone, CT19 5PW
Received 14 Sept 2022Anchor House, 11 Coast Drive, Lydd On Sea, Romney Marsh, TN29 9NL
Received 15 Sept 20224 Whitenbrook Dell, Hythe, CT21 5WD
Received 6 Sept 2022Half Moon Cottage, Church Lane, Brenzett, Romney Marsh, TN29 0EF
Received 6 Sept 2022HSBC, 39 - 41 Sandgate Road, Folkestone, CT20 1SA
Received 15 Sept 20224 Crossway Close, Dymchurch, Romney Marsh, TN29 0ND
Received 7 Sept 202254 Bouverie Road West, Folkestone, CT20 2RL
Received 9 Sept 2022The Sycamores, High Street, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6SY
Received 9 Sept 2022The Sycamores, High Street, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6SY
Received 9 Sept 2022Rhodes House, Main Road, Sellindge, Ashford, TN25 6JA
Received 15 Sept 2022Shorncliffe Garrison, Folkestone , CT20 3HN
Received 15 Sept 2022Woodend, Cannongate Road, Hythe, CT21 5EF
Received 15 Sept 2022Residential Unit, Near Miss, Cockreed Lane, New Romney, TN28 8TE
Received 12 Sept 2022Verneys, High Street, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6TD
Received 16 Sept 2022Mount Hill Cottage, Chapel Lane, Rhodes Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6YB
Received 16 Sept 202257 - 59 Wear Bay Road, Folkestone, CT19 6PU
Received 16 Sept 202234 - 36 Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone, CT20 2TZ
Received 16 Sept 2022Trinity View House, 24 - 26 Earls Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2UF
Received 16 Sept 2022Unit 2 Spring House, 141 High Street, Hythe, CT21 5JL
Received 19 Sept 202215 Grange Road, Saltwood, Hythe, CT21 4QS
Received 13 Sept 20228 White Cliff Way, Folkestone, CT19 6DX
Received 20 Sept 2022Fairlands, Berwick Lane, Lympne, Hythe, CT21 4JX
Received 20 Sept 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Folkestone and Hythe Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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