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7 Rendezvous Street, Folkestone, CT20 1EY

25/1058/FH/PAPA - Offices to dwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: Prior approval not required

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

Proposal

Determination as to whether the prior approval of the Local Planning Authority is required under Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use & conversion from first floor commercial, business and service (Class E) to 1 self contained flat (Class C3).

Received
6 June 2025
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received6 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.14 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 7 RENDEZVOUS STREET, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1EY. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Folkestone conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 383 applications in total for the CT20 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
CT20 1EY
Application type
PA - Offices to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2025
Consultation expiry
14 July 2025
Consultation end
14 July 2025
Application expires
11 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
26

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 (5)

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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