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20 Castle View, Hythe, CT21 4BF

25/0252/FHLawful development: Proposed useApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 March 2025

Council decision: Lawful

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) for the installation of solar panels to roof.

Received
11 February 2025
Ward
Hythe Rural
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated18 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Mar

Decided in 24 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at 20 CASTLE VIEW, HYTHE, CT21 4BF. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks 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 62 applications across Hythe Rural. We hold 1,106 applications in total for the CT21 postcode area.

77% of outline 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
CT21 4BF
Application type
Lawful development: Proposed use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hythe

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 February 2025
Application expires
8 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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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