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7 The Old High Street, Folkestone, CT20 1RJ

23/0616/FHRemoval/variation of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 19 January 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Variation of condition 1 (outbuilding/rear yard ) & 2 (live/recorded music) of planning permission 21/2449/FH to allow revised opening times for the outbuilding and rear yard/outside to be open 0800 - 2200 on any day and live/recorded music in the yard to between 12.00 and 19.00

Received
19 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received19 Apr
  2. Validated5 May
  3. Consult.15 Jun
  4. Target15 Jun
  5. Decided19 Jan

Decided in 259 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at 7 The Old High Street, Folkestone, CT20 1RJ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 689 applications of this type. This one was decided in 275 days, 32 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Folkestone conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Folkestone Central. We hold 383 applications in total for the CT20 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
CT20 1RJ
Application type
Removal/variation of conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 May 2023
Consultation expiry
15 June 2023
Consultation end
15 June 2023
Target decision date
15 June 2023
Application expires
28 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
84 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Folkestone

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 (6)

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

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.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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