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Upper Park Gate Farm, Elham Park, Elham, CT4 6NE

20/1972/FH/PAPrior Approval Pt3 Cls.R - Agricultural to FlexiApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 January 2021

Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Determination as to whether the prior approval of the Local Planning Authority is required under Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for the change of use & conversion of part ground & first floor Agricultural building to office use.

Received
4 December 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received4 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.14 Jan
  4. Target14 Jan
  5. Decided11 Jan

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Upper Park Gate Farm, Elham Park, Elham, CT4 6NE. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,908 applications in total for the CT4 postcode area.

77% of outline applications at Folkestone and Hythe District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT4 6NE
Application type
Prior Approval Pt3 Cls.R - Agricultural to Flexi
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Elham Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2020
Consultation expiry
14 January 2021
Consultation end
14 January 2021
Target decision date
14 January 2021
Application expires
9 February 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
22 Hawk's Lane Canterbury CT1 2NU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

No recorded designations at this site.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (7)

conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens and SSSIs.

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.

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Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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