Channel Tunnel Terminal Ashford Road Newington Folkestone Kent CT18 8XX

Y14/1026/SHFull Planning PermissionApproved

Full

Approved on 7 August 2015

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Erection of a High Voltage Direct Current converter station and associated plant together with an access road and 2.5m high mesh fencing and gates

Submitted: 23 October 2014
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: Folkestone and Hythe District Council

ReceivedSubmitted23 Oct
ValidatedValidated23 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date27 Feb
DecidedDecided7 Aug

Decided in 288 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Channel Tunnel Terminal Ashford Road Newington Folkestone Kent CT18 8XX. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 3,080 applications of this type. This one was decided in 288 days, 34 weeks longer than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There have been 15 other applications at this address. We hold 1,627 applications in total for the CT18 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: CT18 8XX
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Newington

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 October 2014
Target decision date: 27 February 2015
Committee meeting: 10 March 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Mott MacDonald Ltd Mott MacDonald House 8-10 Sydenham Road Croydon Surrey CR0 2EE

Planning decision

Statutory period: 127 days

Additional information

Documents: 67

Site constraints

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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.

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2014
23 Oct
Erection of a High Voltage Direct Current converter station and associated plant together with an access road…
This applicationApprovedFullY14/1026/SH

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12 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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