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River Cottage, Straight Hill, Wingmore, Canterbury, CT4 6LT

25/0420/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 1 May 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions

Proposal

Demolition of the porch and flue at the rear of the building. Proposed ground and first floor extension to the rear of the property with a hipped gable roof. Minor alterations to the existing landscaping.

Received
7 March 2025
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received7 Mar
  2. Validated13 Mar
  3. Consult.17 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at RIVER COTTAGE, STRAIGHT HILL, WINGMORE, CANTERBURY, CT4 6LT. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,907 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 6LT
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Elham

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 March 2025
Consultation expiry
17 April 2025
Consultation end
17 April 2025
Application expires
8 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (6)

conservation areas, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    7 Mar

    Demolition of the porch and flue at the rear of the building. Proposed ground and first floor extension to…

    This applicationConditionsFull25/0420/FH
  2. 2025
    7 Mar

    Listed Building Consent for the demolition of the porch and flue at the rear of the building. Proposed ground…

    ConditionsListed building consentFiled alongside25/0444/FH

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