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Wingham Wildlife Park Rusham Road Wingham CT3 1JL

25/00055Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 25 July 2025

Council decision: Grant Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land for extension to wildlife park, erection of buildings to provide pygmy hippo and tiger enclosures, solar panels, erection of bear building with utilities/enclosures and expansion of existing car park (part retrospective)

Received
20 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Little Stour And Ashstone
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Wingham Wildlife Park Rusham Road Wingham CT3 1JL. Dover has handled 1,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 186 days, 19 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 111 applications across Little Stour And Ashstone. We hold 2,038 applications in total for the CT3 postcode area.

91% of full 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
CT3 1JL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
WINGHAM

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2025
Last date for comments
6 June 2025
Target decision date
25 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Finn's
Agent address
The Packhouse Wantsum Way St Nicholas-at-Wade CT70NE

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 May 2025

Additional information

Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

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, 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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© 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.

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