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West Hythe Auto Centre, Unit 6, Lower Wall Workshops, Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, Hythe, CT21 4NN

26/0407/FHLawful development: Existing useRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 15 May 2026

Council decision: Not Lawful

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (existing) for the continued use as a maintenance & repair of motor vehicles workshop.

Received
16 March 2026
Ward
Romney Marsh
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at West Hythe Auto Centre, Unit 6, Lower Wall Workshops, Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, Hythe, CT21 4NN. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 339 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days 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 47 applications across Romney Marsh. We hold 1,106 applications in total for the CT21 postcode area.

78% of amendment 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
CT21 4NN
Application type
Lawful development: Existing use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burmarsh

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2026
Application expires
15 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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

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.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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