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Car Park Folkestone West Railway Station, Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone, CT20 3PA

23/1079/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 25 August 2023

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retrospective application for the change of use of part of the station car park (Sui Generis use) to a farmers market (Use Class E(a)) for a period of 3 years

Received
7 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cheriton
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.9 Aug
  4. Target9 Aug
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Car Park Folkestone West Railway Station, Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone, CT20 3PA. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Cheriton. We hold 382 applications in total for the CT20 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
CT20 3PA
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2023
Consultation expiry
9 August 2023
Consultation end
9 August 2023
Target decision date
9 August 2023
Application expires
1 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Network Rail infrastructure Ltd 1 Puddle Dock 4th Floor London EC4V 3DS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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.

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Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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