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Units 4, 5 & 6 Princes Gate, Bayle Street, Folkestone, CT20 1SF

26/0504/FHFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 21 May 2026

Council decision: Approve with Conditions7 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use of Units 4 and 5 to Class F1(a) (education and learning), retention of Unit 6 for ancillary office use; insertion of two windows to rear elevation and relocation of door to existing frontage.

Received
30 March 2026
Ward
Folkestone Central
  1. Received30 Mar
  2. Validated2 Apr
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Units 4, 5 & 6 Princes Gate, Bayle Street, Folkestone, CT20 1SF. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Folkestone conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Folkestone Central. We hold 383 applications in total for the CT20 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
CT20 1SF
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 April 2026
Consultation expiry
14 May 2026
Consultation end
14 May 2026
Application expires
28 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (5)

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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