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River Cottage, Straight Hill, Wingmore, Canterbury, CT4 6LT

25/2296/FHListed Building Consent (Alt/Ext)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 3 February 2026

Council decision: Approve with Conditions3 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed building consent for brick chimney and hearth addition to the existing garden room.

Received
19 December 2025
Ward
North Downs East
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for an outbuilding at RIVER COTTAGE, STRAIGHT HILL, WINGMORE, CANTERBURY, CT4 6LT. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 294 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 3 days quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,907 applications in total for the CT4 postcode area.

84% of heritage 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
CT4 6LT
Application type
Listed Building Consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Elham

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2025
Consultation expiry
30 January 2026
Consultation end
30 January 2026
Application expires
13 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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)

conservation areas, 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    19 Dec

    Proposed brick chimney and hearth addition to the existing garden room.

    ApprovedHouseholderFiled alongside25/2291/FH
  2. 2025
    19 Dec

    Listed building consent for brick chimney and hearth addition to the existing garden room.

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent25/2296/FH

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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