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111 Canterbury Road, Hawkinge, Folkestone, CT18 7BS

25/0002/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 19 March 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions6 conditions

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

Proposal

Full planning permission for the retention of the existing building formally used as a children's centre and a change of use, to use class E (commercial, business and service)".

Received
24 December 2024
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received24 Dec
  2. Validated10 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 68 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 111 CANTERBURY ROAD, HAWKINGE, FOLKESTONE, CT18 7BS. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 5 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,627 applications in total for the CT18 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
CT18 7BS
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hawkinge

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 January 2025
Consultation expiry
5 February 2025
Consultation end
5 February 2025
Committee meeting
18 March 2025
Application expires
25 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
74 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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