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2 Church Cottages School Lane Newington Folkestone Kent CT18 8AX

Y09/0406/SHLawful development: Proposed useApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 May 2009

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed installation of solar panels on roof.

Submitted
12 May 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 May

Decided in 17 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at 2 Church Cottages School Lane Newington Folkestone Kent CT18 8AX. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 423 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 5 weeks quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. The site is in the Newington conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,627 applications in total for the CT18 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
CT18 8AX
Application type
Lawful development: Proposed use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newington

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2009

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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