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4 Helena Villas, Hospital Hill, Hythe, CT21 5RU

26/1556/FHLawful development: Proposed useRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 19 October 2026

Council decision: Not Lawful

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) for the erection of an outbuilding.

Received
21 September 2026
Ward
Hythe
  1. Received21 Sep
  2. Validated21 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Oct

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 4 Helena Villas, Hospital Hill, Hythe, CT21 5RU. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks 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 127 applications across Hythe. We hold 1,106 applications in total for the CT21 postcode area.

77% of outline 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 5RU
Application type
Lawful development: Proposed use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hythe

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 September 2026
Application expires
16 November 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Macey Douglas
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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.

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Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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