Sunshine Cottage, Mill Lane, Hawkinge, Folkestone, CT18 7BY
Approved on 11 September 2025
Council decision: Approve with Conditions2 conditions
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Proposal
Garage conversion, rear extension, front entrance porch and canopy, side extension
- Received
- 17 March 2025
- Ward
- North Downs East
- ReceivedReceived17 Mar
- ValidatedValidated20 Mar
- Consult.Consultation11 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided11 Sep
Decided in 175 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a rear extension at SUNSHINE COTTAGE, MILL LANE, HAWKINGE, FOLKESTONE, CT18 7BY. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 178 days, 18 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 7BY
- Application type
- Householder planning permission
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Hawkinge
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 11 April 2025
- Application expires
- 12 September 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 176 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 22
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Folkestone and Hythe
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