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Land adjacent to Apple Tree Farm, Mill Lane, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6AE

26/0281/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 7 May 2026

Council decision: Approve with Conditions4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of a ground-mounted 18 x solar panel array.

Received
25 February 2026
Ward
North Downs West
  1. Received25 Feb
  2. Validated13 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 May

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Land adjacent to Apple Tree Farm, Mill Lane, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6AE. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 3 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 104 applications across North Downs West. We hold 1,907 applications in total for the CT4 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
CT4 6AE
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stelling Minnis

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 March 2026
Consultation expiry
16 April 2026
Consultation end
16 April 2026
Application expires
8 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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