5 Ash Tree Road, Folkestone, CT19 6ED
Refused on 14 November 2025
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Proposal
Conversion of garage to self contained annexe and rear balcony to first floor.
- Received
- 19 September 2025
- Ward
- East Folkestone
- ReceivedReceived19 Sep
- ValidatedValidated23 Sep
- Consult.Consultation16 Oct
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided14 Nov
Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 5 ASH TREE ROAD, FOLKESTONE, CT19 6ED. 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 has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across East Folkestone. We hold 242 applications in total for the CT19 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 balcony, due to its design and siting in close proximity to neighbouring dwellings, would result in an unacceptable level of overlooking and loss of privacy, causing harm to residential amenity. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policies HB1 and HB8 of the adopted Places and Policies Local Plan (2020).
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- CT19 6ED
- Application type
- Householder planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Folkestone
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 16 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 16 October 2025
- Application expires
- 18 November 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Folkestone and Hythe
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