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Grimsacre Cottage Grimsacre Farm, Canterbury Road, North Elham, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6NG

22/1665/FHHouseholder planning permissionApproved
Householder

Approved on 27 January 2023

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Proposed detached 3 bay garage and store plus annexe above.

Received
30 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.4 Nov
  4. Target4 Nov
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 119 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Grimsacre Cottage Grimsacre Farm, Canterbury Road, North Elham, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6NG. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 10 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,907 applications in total for the CT4 postcode area.

84% of full 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 6NG
Application type
Householder planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Elham Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2022
Consultation expiry
4 November 2022
Consultation end
4 November 2022
Target decision date
4 November 2022
Application expires
1 February 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Prince & Gisbey Architects Ltd 51 Shamrock Avenue Whitstable CT5 4EL

Planning decision

Statutory period
124 days

Additional information

Documents
18

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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