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Red House Farm, Canterbury Road, Swingfield, Dover, CT15 7HZ

22/0187/FH/PAPrior approval Part 3 Class R: Agricultural buildings to a flexible commercial useRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 28 March 2022

Delegated (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 from Agricultural buildings to flexible commercial uses.

Received
2 February 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.23 Mar
  4. Target23 Mar
  5. Decided28 Mar

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Red House Farm, Canterbury Road, Swingfield, Dover, CT15 7HZ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 769 applications in total for the CT15 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
CT15 7HZ
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class R: Agricultural buildings to a flexible commercial use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swingfield Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2022
Consultation expiry
23 March 2022
Consultation end
23 March 2022
Target decision date
23 March 2022
Application expires
30 March 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Hobbs Parker Property Consultants Romney House Monument Way Orbital Park Ashford TN24 0HB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14

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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