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South Kent Christian Community Church, 32 Cheriton Road, Folkestone, CT20 1BZ

25/1532/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 16 October 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions8 conditions

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

Proposal

Conversion of church to 1no. two-bedroom dwelling.

Received
13 August 2025
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated26 Aug
  3. Consult.17 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at SOUTH KENT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, 32 CHERITON ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT20 1BZ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks 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 114 applications across Folkestone Central. We hold 382 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 1BZ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 August 2025
Consultation expiry
17 September 2025
Consultation end
17 September 2025
Application expires
21 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
17

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.

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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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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    8 Jul

    Variation of condition 2 (Approved Plans) of planning permission 25/1532/FH

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)26/1097/FH
  2. 2025
    13 Aug

    Conversion of church to 1no. two-bedroom dwelling.

    This applicationApprovedFull25/1532/FH

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