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252 Cheriton Road, Folkestone, CT19 4DN

25/1306/FH/PAPA - Offices to dwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 September 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 a change of use of the ground floor from commercial, business and service (Use Class E) to dwellinghouse (Use Class C3).

Received
15 July 2025
Ward
Cheriton
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.5 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 252 CHERITON ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT19 4DN. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 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 40 applications across Cheriton. We hold 242 applications in total for the CT19 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
CT19 4DN
Application type
PA - Offices to dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2025
Consultation expiry
5 September 2025
Consultation end
5 September 2025
Application expires
9 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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.

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Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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