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Lucy Avenue, (opp Thompson Close) Folkestone, CT19 5UF

23/1300/FH/PAPrior notification: Development by telecoms operatorsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 29 September 2023

Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Determination as to whether the prior approval of the Local Planning Authority is required under Schedule 2, Part 16, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for a proposed 15m 5G telecoms installation, H3G street pole and additional equipment cabinets.

Received
17 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Broadmead
  1. Received17 Aug
  2. Validated17 Aug
  3. Consult.19 Sep
  4. Target19 Sep
  5. Decided29 Sep

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Lucy Avenue, (opp Thompson Close) Folkestone, CT19 5UF. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 14 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Broadmead. We hold 242 applications in total for the CT19 postcode area.

88% of all 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
CT19 5UF
Application type
Prior notification: Development by telecoms operators
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 August 2023
Consultation expiry
19 September 2023
Consultation end
19 September 2023
Target decision date
19 September 2023
Application expires
12 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
DOT Surveying 2 Anderson Place Edinburgh EH6 5NP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14

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

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Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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