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Land To The Rear Of Former Magistrates Court Pencester Road Dover Kent

25/00710Certificate of Lawful Existing UseWithdrawn
Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 21 August 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness (existing) for the installation of a manhole on site to implement planning consent DOV/20/01014 (erection of a three-storey building incorporating 12 no. flats and associated parking)

Received
20 June 2025
Public comments
2
Ward
Town And Castle
Agent
GA&A Design
  1. Received20 Jun
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target16 Aug
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land To The Rear Of Former Magistrates Court Pencester Road Dover Kent. Dover has handled 262 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 62 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Town And Castle.

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

Application type
Certificate of Lawful Existing Use
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
12
Parish
DOVER

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2025
Last date for comments
24 July 2025
Target decision date
16 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
GA&A Design
Architect profile
GA&A DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
Suite 2, First Floor Aquasulis 10-14 Bath Road Slough SL1 3SA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Dover - Dover CastlePart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: Former Magistrates Court 1 - 7 Pencester Road, DoverRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    23 Feb

    Regulation 5 (The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and restrictions) (Amendment) Regulations 2017)…

    ApprovedCirc 34/76 O/Head Lines/28 Day Notificat26/00078
  2. 2023
    16 Aug

    Discharge of condition 18 (external lighting) pursuant to application 20/01014

    Condition ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/20/01014/E
  3. 2023
    16 Aug

    Discharge of condition 12 (archaeology) pursuant to application 20/01014

    Condition Part ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/20/01014/B
  4. 2023
    16 Aug

    Discharge of condition 13 (flood evacuation plan) pursuant to application 20/01014

    Condition ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/20/01014/C
  5. 2023
    16 Aug

    Discharge of condition 17 (Car park management plan) pursuant to application 20/01014

    Condition ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCON/20/01014/D

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