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Castle House, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2TF

25/0605/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 6 June 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions

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

Proposal

New security fencing & gates to existing rear car park.

Received
28 March 2025
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received28 Mar
  2. Validated11 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Castle House, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2TF. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 3 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Folkestone conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Folkestone Central. We hold 383 applications in total for the CT20 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
CT20 2TF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 April 2025
Consultation expiry
16 May 2025
Consultation end
16 May 2025
Application expires
6 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Folkestone

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)

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.

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    12 Aug

    New security fencing & gates to existing front car park.

    RefusedApplication26/1312/FH

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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