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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Folkestone and Hythe Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Folkestone and Hythe website
0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Dec 1993 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 SENE PARK, HYTHE, CT21 5XB
Received 14 Mar 2025PREMIER INN, CHERRY GARDEN LANE, FOLKESTONE, CT19 4AP
Received 14 Mar 2025STOP 24 SERVICES AND PORT EARLY ARRIVALS, STANFORD INTERSECTION, STANFORD, CT21 4BL
Received 14 Mar 2025DOLPHIN COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE, LYMINGE, FOLKESTONE, CT18 8EG
Received 17 Mar 202564 HERON FORSTAL AVENUE, HAWKINGE, FOLKESTONE, CT18 7PG
Received 17 Mar 202576 PALM TREE WAY, LYMINGE, FOLKESTONE, CT18 8JN
Received 17 Mar 2025SUNSHINE COTTAGE, MILL LANE, HAWKINGE, FOLKESTONE, CT18 7BY
Received 17 Mar 2025Black Horse Caravan Site, Canterbury Road, Densole, CT18 7BG
Received 17 Mar 2025Flat B, 2 Clifton Road, Folkestone, CT20 2EH
Received 17 Mar 2025MARINA CAR PARK, LOWER SANDGATE ROAD, FOLKESTONE
Received 17 Mar 2025Land Adjacent to 7A, Manor Road, Lydd, TN29 9HR
Received 18 Mar 2025BUNKERS HILL FARM, BUNKERS HILL, ELHAM, CANTERBURY, CT4 6NW
Received 18 Mar 202517 High Street, New Romney, TN28 8BN
Received 18 Mar 2025FOX COTTAGE, OTTERPOOL LANE, LYMPNE, HYTHE, CT21 4LP
Received 18 Mar 202513 CASTLE MEWS, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2BU
Received 18 Mar 2025Shorncliffe Development Phase 2d, West Road, Folkestone, CT20 3WT
Received 18 Mar 2025SOUTH KENT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, 32 CHERITON ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1BZ
Received 18 Mar 2025Land West of Ashford Road, New Romney
Received 18 Mar 2025APPLES JOY, STRAIGHT LANE, BROOKLAND, ROMNEY MARSH, TN29 9QS
Received 18 Mar 2025WALLINGHAM, HOPE LANE, NEW ROMNEY, TN28 8TP
Received 19 Mar 2025WALLINGHAM, HOPE LANE, NEW ROMNEY, TN28 8TP
Received 19 Mar 202528 WALTON GARDENS, FOLKESTONE, CT19 5PR
Received 19 Mar 2025THE METROPOLE, THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE, CT20 2LU
Received 19 Mar 20254 HYTHE CLOSE, FOLKESTONE, CT20 3QH
Received 19 Mar 2025Records 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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