Skip to content

Folkestone Garden Centre, Canterbury Road, Swingfield Minnis, Folkestone, CT15 7HX

23/0963/FHFull Planning PermissionWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 16 August 2024

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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

Hybrid application seeking full planning permission for the demolition of the existing greenhouses, store buildings and toilet block alongside the refurbishment of existing garden centre building and rear courtyard, erection of side extension to provide a café, kitchen and WC, a front extension to provide a new entrance building, the erection of a covered retail area to rear alongside a new delivery area and storage building with associated car parking, landscaping and other works. Outline planning permission for the erection of a non-commercial stables and associated car parking, access and landscaping.

Received
16 June 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Aug
  5. Decided16 Aug

Decided in 410 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Folkestone Garden Centre, Canterbury Road, Swingfield Minnis, Folkestone, CT15 7HX. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 427 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 2 other applications 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.

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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.Planning something similar? See what gets approved on your street

Application details

Postcode
CT15 7HX
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Swingfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2023
Target decision date
8 August 2024
Committee meeting
13 August 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
DHA Planning Eclipse House Eclipse Park Sittingbourne Road Maidstone ME143EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
402 days

Additional information

Documents
127

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

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

Track this application

Get email alerts when there is a planning decision or status change.

Get email alerts near CT15

New planning applications delivered to your inbox daily.

Around this site

Discuss this application on r/PlanningPermissionUK

For applicants and trades

Planning something similar?

See what the council approved and refused on your street for the project you have in mind. Pick your home and get the evidence before you pay for drawings.

See what gets approved on your streetBuying this property? Report on this address