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Waste Transfer Station Fernfield Lane Hawkinge Folkestone Kent CT18 7AW

21/00761County Council Deemed Permission Reg 4Approved

Approved on 26 August 2021

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The installation of machinery to support the company's renewable wood pellet expansion programme comprising Scheuch Ligno Gmbh A-4941 Mehmbach and flue, Fuel Store, Pellet Store, Hopper and flue, Stela Dryer, 1 no. 20ft Sound Attenuated Shipping Container and 2 x low carbon electrical production units as well as amendments to the permitted acoustic barrier, an additional boundary enclosure to part of the southern boundary, an increase in the quantity of wood waste to be imported for processing at the site to 25,000 tonnes per annum and an increase in the number of HGV movements (part retrospective)

Received
11 May 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Alkham And Capel-le-Ferne
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated11 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Waste Transfer Station Fernfield Lane Hawkinge Folkestone Kent CT18 7AW. Dover has handled 79 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 7 weeks longer than Dover's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Alkham And Capel-le-Ferne. We hold 1,626 applications in total for the CT18 postcode area.

92% of all applications at Dover District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT18 7AW
Application type
County Council Deemed Permission Reg 4
Scale / size
Small
Parish
ALKHAM

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 May 2021
Target decision date
7 June 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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