Understanding planning · 13 min read
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0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn.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: 24 Sept 2013 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
12 Cannongate Avenue Hythe Kent CT21 5PS
Received 1 Mar 2019New Buildings Farmhouse Beckett Road Brookland Romney Marsh Kent TN29 9TF
Received 1 Mar 201919 The Meade Hawkinge Folkestone Kent CT18 7NJ
Received 1 Mar 2019Studfall Ridge Lympne Hill Lympne Hythe Kent CT21 4NX
Received 4 Mar 2019Shorncliffe Development Phase 2 North Road Folkestone Kent
Received 8 Mar 201954 Phillip Road Folkestone Kent CT19 4PZ
Received 8 Mar 2019Stourside Stone Street Stanford South Ashford Kent TN25 6DE
Received 11 Mar 2019Shorncliffe Garrison Aldridge Road Folkestone Kent
Received 1 Apr 2019Tesco Stores Ltd Cheriton High Street Folkestone Kent CT19 4QJ
Received 29 Mar 2019Land At Hurricane Way Hawkinge Kent
Received 4 Oct 2018Link House Dungeness Road Dungeness Romney Marsh Kent TN29 9NF
Received 4 Oct 20185 Sycamore Gardens Dymchurch Romney Marsh Kent TN29 0LA
Received 10 Oct 2018Land Adjoining 1 Pleasance Road North Lydd On Sea Kent
Received 6 Jun 2019Flat B 10 Augusta Gardens Folkestone Kent CT20 2RR
Received 10 Sept 2019St Georges Church 8 Audley Road Folkestone Kent CT20 3QA
Received 18 Sept 20191 Audley Road Folkestone Kent CT20 3QA
Received 20 Sept 2019Unit 3 Jacks Park Cinque Ports Road Mountfield Industrial Estate New Romney Kent TN28 8AN
Received 25 Sept 2019Stour Rise Staple Lane Postling Hythe Kent CT21 4EZ
Received 25 Apr 2019Kent Cottages Church Road Lyminge Kent CT18 8EJ
Received 11 Oct 2019Church & Dwight Uk Ltd Bowles Well Gardens Folkestone Kent CT19 6PQ
Received 14 Oct 2019Church & Dwight Uk Ltd Bowles Well Gardens Folkestone Kent CT19 6PQ
Received 14 Oct 2019Hamilton House Rye Road Brookland Romney Marsh Kent TN29 9TA
Received 14 Oct 2019Hamilton House Rye Road Brookland Romney Marsh Kent TN29 9TA
Received 14 Oct 201915 Tower Gardens Hythe Kent CT21 6DG
Received 13 Aug 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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