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Spencer Exchange, Mountfield Industrial Estate, New Romney, TN28 8LH

25/1818/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions9 conditions

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

Proposal

Erection of a small commercial building to house a local internet exchange & battery storage system, an overhanging car port from the building to provide shelter for a double dual EV rapid public charging station, renewable Solar PV system to the roof of the building / carport & the installation of a new 37m telecommunications mast for local broadband.

Received
30 September 2025
Ward
New Romney
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated13 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 67 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Spencer Exchange, Mountfield Industrial Estate, New Romney, TN28 8LH. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 4 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 90 applications across New Romney. We hold 1,202 applications in total for the TN28 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
TN28 8LH
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
New Romney

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 October 2025
Consultation expiry
25 November 2025
Consultation end
25 November 2025
Committee meeting
16 December 2025
Application expires
19 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
67 days

Additional information

Documents
31

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

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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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