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White Cliffs Inland Border Facility Honeywood Parkway White Cliffs Business Park Whitfield CT16 3PT

22/00390National Infrastructure ProjectApproved

Approved on 21 April 2023

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionNo Code Text Available

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Tempory use of land until 31st December 2025 for an Inland Border Facility operating for 24 hours a day 7 days a week, for use by or on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs/Border Force, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for customs checks, including CTC, ATA, CITES checks and market surveillance. The scheme includes the laying out of up to 112 goods vehicles parking spaces (including bays for CITES vehicles), plus 20 parking spaces within four swim lanes covered by canopy (plus an emergency access lane), staff car parking bays, the erection of buildings and structures for border processing purposes (including the storage goods) to a maximum height of 9m, fencing up to a maximum height of 3m, lighting columns to a maximum height of 10m, CCTV, engineering and earth moving including cut and fill works and the importation/exportation of material, the creation of landscaped soil storage bunds/stockpiles, drainage (including basins) and all associated engineering, site preparation works, hard and soft landscaping works, construction of a diverted Byway, and formation of a main access road from B&Q roundabout on Honeywood Parkway terminating to the east of Roman Road, with access and egresses to serve the IBF. The works for approval are set out on the Site Plan Drawing No DIBF-WSP-00-XX-DR-TC-10100 P04 and Access Road General Arrangement Drawing No DIBF-WSP-XX-ACC-DR-CV-00101 P02 and DIBF-WSP-XX-ACC-DR-CV-00102 P02

Received
24 March 2022
Decision level
No Code Text Available
Ward
Whitfield
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided21 Apr

Decided in 393 days

About this application

This is a planning application at White Cliffs Inland Border Facility Honeywood Parkway White Cliffs Business Park Whitfield CT16 3PT. Dover has handled 5,187 applications of this type. This one was decided in 393 days, 48 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 33 applications across Whitfield. We hold 293 applications in total for the CT16 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CT16 3PT
Application type
National Infrastructure Project
Scale / size
Small
Parish
WHITFIELD

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2022
Target decision date
14 April 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4(1) Direction Town and Country Planning (Border Facilities and Infrastructure (E…Part of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, National Landscapes, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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