Channel Tunnel Terminal Ashford Road Newington Folkestone Kent CT18 8XX

Y16/0114/NMCNon-Material AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 January 2017

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Non material change to application Y14/1026/SH (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) to allow for amendments to the plant area to the west side of the site, improvements to the design of the green screen feature and adjustments to the groundworks design.

Submitted: 9 December 2016
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Folkestone and Hythe District Council
Ward: North Downs East

ReceivedSubmitted9 Dec
ValidatedValidated9 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date9 Dec
DecidedDecided13 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Channel Tunnel Terminal Ashford Road Newington Folkestone Kent CT18 8XX. Folkestone and Hythe has handled 339 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than Folkestone and Hythe's typical decision time. There have been 15 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 140 applications across North Downs East. We hold 1,627 applications in total for the CT18 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: CT18 8XX
Application type: Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Newington

Planning application dates

Date validated: 9 December 2016
Target decision date: 9 December 2016

Applicant and agent

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

Additional information

Documents: 8

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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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Associated applications

2018
10 May
Application for the discharge of condition 7 (lighting scheme) of planning permission Y14/1026/SH
WithdrawnDischarge of conditionsY18/0622/FH
2017
24 Oct
Application for discharge of condition 11 (living wall system) of planning application Y14/1026/SH
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsY17/1358/SH
2016
9 Dec
Non material change to application Y14/1026/SH
This applicationApprovedNon-material amendmentY16/0114/NMC
2014
23 Oct
Erection of a High Voltage Direct Current converter station and associated plant together with an access road…
ApprovedFull Planning PermissionPart ofY14/1026/SH

Planning history at this site

12 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Folkestone and Hythe

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