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Land Adjoining The Old Barn, Grimsacre Farm, Canterbury Road, North Elham, Elham, Canterbury, CT4 6NG

25/0820/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 26 June 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions

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

Proposal

Retrospective application for the change of use of land for the keeping of horses.

Received
1 May 2025
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received1 May
  2. Validated6 May
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Jun

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at LAND ADJOINING THE OLD BARN, GRIMSACRE FARM, CANTERBURY ROAD, NORTH ELHAM, ELHAM, CANTERBURY, CT4 6NG. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days 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 1,907 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 6NG
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Elham

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 May 2025
Consultation expiry
30 May 2025
Consultation end
30 May 2025
Application expires
1 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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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