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Blossom House, Alma Road, Folkestone, CT20 3LU

26/0876/FHLawful development: Existing useApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 15 July 2026

Council decision: Lawful

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

Lawful Development Certificate (existing) for the conversion of garage and continued use as a dwelling.

Received
4 June 2026
Ward
Cheriton
  1. Received4 Jun
  2. Validated8 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Jul

Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Blossom House, Alma Road, Folkestone, CT20 3LU. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 339 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Cheriton. We hold 382 applications in total for the CT20 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
CT20 3LU
Application type
Lawful development: Existing use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Folkestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 June 2026
Application expires
3 August 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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

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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