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Mount Lodge, Mount Bottom, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6UJ

23/0967/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 3 October 2023

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use to single storey garage to provide holiday accommodation. Restoration of existing ground floor structure with new first floor addition/extension and associated landscape works

Received
19 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received19 Jun
  2. Validated19 Jun
  3. Consult.26 Jul
  4. Target26 Jul
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 106 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Mount Lodge, Mount Bottom, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6UJ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 8 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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.

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 6UJ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Elham

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 June 2023
Consultation expiry
26 July 2023
Consultation end
26 July 2023
Target decision date
26 July 2023
Application expires
14 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
12 Woodpecker Way Hythe CT21 4BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
32

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

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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