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The Bench 15 Bench Street Dover CT16 1JW

24/00181/ANon Material Minor AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 May 2025

Council decision: Approve Non-material AMDDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Non material minor amendment to approved application 24/00181/A (Full application for the erection of an up to four storeys in height building for uses including education, offices, studio, gallery and cafe (Use Classes E(g)(i), E(b) and F1) to allow non-material changes to the layout and external appearance of the building, as well as the addition of an external cycle store and an increase in parapet height by 225mm

Received
31 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Town And Castle
Agent
Lee Evans Partnership LLP
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated3 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Bench 15 Bench Street Dover CT16 1JW. Dover has handled 262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 weeks quicker than Dover's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Town And Castle. We hold 293 applications in total for the CT16 postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
CT16 1JW
Application type
Non Material Minor Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
DOVER

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 April 2025
Target decision date
30 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lee Evans Partnership LLP
Agent address
St John's Lane Canterbury CT1 2QQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

12 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    30 Mar

    Discharge of condition 27 (Air Quality Report), condition 32 ( lighting design strategy for ecology) pursuant…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsCON/24/00181/M
  2. 2026
    20 Mar

    Discharge of condition 12 (parking restrictions) pursuant to application 24/00181

    PendingDischarge of conditionsCON/24/00181/L
  3. 2026
    3 Mar

    Discharge of condition 9 (Hard and Soft landscape scheme), condition 10 (Landscape management plan details)…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsCON/24/00181/K
  4. 2026
    21 Jan

    Discharge of condition 8 (BREEAM) pursuant to application 24/00181

    Condition Part ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/24/00181/J
  5. 2025
    13 Nov

    Discharge of condition 15 (heritage public engagement strategy) pursuant to application 24/00181

    PendingDischarge of conditionsCON/24/00181/I
  6. 2025
    9 Jun

    Discharge of condition 5 (Construction details including external doors and windows, recessed brickwork…

    Condition ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/24/00181/H

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