School House, The Street, Lympne, Hythe, CT21 4LQ
Refused on 3 October 2025
Proposal
Erection of a steel framed cladded storage shed and timber fencing to west boundary to footpath.
- Received
- 1 August 2025
- Ward
- Hythe Rural
- ReceivedReceived1 Aug
- ValidatedValidated12 Aug
- Consult.Consultation11 Sep
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided3 Oct
Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at SCHOOL HOUSE, THE STREET, LYMPNE, HYTHE, CT21 4LQ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 2 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Lympne conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Hythe Rural. We hold 1,106 applications in total for the CT21 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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Why it was refused
- The proposed development, by virtue of its siting outside the residential curtilage, within the open countryside outside the defined settlement boundary, would constitute an inappropriate and unjustified encroachment of development in the countryside without any overriding justification being provided. The proposal is therefore contrary to policies SS1, SS3 and CSD3 of the adopted Core Strategy 2022 and policies HB1 and NE3 of the adopted Places and Policies Local Plan 2020.
- The proposed development, by virtue of its design, siting, scale, bulk and mass, would amount to an incongruous and obtrusive form of development, that would be significantly harmful to the visual amenity of the application site, wider countryside, and would fail to further the purpose of conserving and enhancing the natural beauty of the Kent Downs National Landscape. The proposal would therefore be contrary to policies HB1, HB8 and NE3 of the adopted Places and Policies Local Plan (2020), the advice of the NPPF.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- CT21 4LQ
- Application type
- Householder planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lympne
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 11 September 2025
- Application expires
- 7 October 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Lympne
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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202625 May
Approval of details pursuant to condition 4 (trees) of planning permission 25/2301/FH
ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/0817/FH/CON - 202630 Mar
Approval of details pursuant to condition 4 (trees) of Planning permission 25/2301/FH
WithdrawnDischarge of conditions26/0500/FH/CON - 202522 Dec
Erection of storage building/domestic workshop.
ApprovedHouseholder25/2301/FH - 202514 Aug
Works to trees the subject of TPO No 4 of 1995 T01 Ash lift canopy by 2-3m, prune away from utility lines to…
ApprovedWorks to Trees covered by a TPO25/1537/FH - 20233 Aug
Works to trees the subject of TPO No 01 of 1959 - Ash remedial work to remove broken or diseased branches and…
ApprovedWorks to Trees covered by a TPO23/1239/FH
Source: Folkestone and Hythe
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