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The Little Cottage, Homelands Farm, Lymbridge Green, Stowting Common, TN25 6BJ

26/1181/FHLawful development: Existing useApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 18 September 2026

Council decision: Lawful

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

Proposal

Lawful development certificate (Existing) for the continued use as a self-contained dwelling.

Received
22 July 2026
Ward
North Downs West
  1. Received22 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Little Cottage, Homelands Farm, Lymbridge Green, Stowting Common, TN25 6BJ. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 339 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 9 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 104 applications across North Downs West. We hold 1,101 applications in total for the TN25 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
TN25 6BJ
Application type
Lawful development: Existing use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stowting

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2026
Application expires
22 September 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Ross McCardle
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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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