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Dover Discovery Centre, Market Square, Dover, Kent CT16 1PH

KCC/DO/0031/2025HeritageApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 May 2025

Council decision: Details Approved

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details of Heritage Programme and timetable for Delivery in a Heritage Benefit Report pursuant to condition 6 of Planning Permission DO/24/1246

Submitted
18 March 2025
  1. Received18 Mar
  2. Validated18 Mar
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Dover Discovery Centre, Market Square, Dover, Kent CT16 1PH. Kent has handled 2 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 293 applications in total for the CT16 postcode area.

100% of all applications at Kent County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CT16 1PH
Application type
Heritage
Scale / size
Small
District
Dover District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 March 2025
Consultation expiry
7 April 2025
Consultation end
7 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    18 Mar

    Details of Heritage Programme and timetable for Delivery in a Heritage Benefit Report pursuant to condition 6…

    This applicationApprovedHeritageKCC/DO/0031/2025
  2. 2025
    18 Mar

    Details of an Archaeological Watching Brief written scheme of investigation pursuant to condition 5 of…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongsideKCC/DO/0032/2025

Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    26 Mar

    Details of foundation designs, staging or other temporary access works, and any other proposals involving…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsKCC/DO/0033/2025
  2. 2024
    4 Dec

    Section 73 planning application to vary Condition 2 of planning permission DO/23/354

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)KCC/DO/0181/2024
  3. 2024
    24 Jun

    Details of foundation designs, any temporary scaffolding, staging or other temporary access works, and any…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionspart
  4. 2024
    2 Apr

    Details of a Construction Management Plan pursuant to Condition 8 of planning permission DO/23/354

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsKCC/DO/0028/2024
  5. 2023
    27 Mar

    New external access ramp and entrance, replacement of the conservatory roofs with solid panels, additional…

    ApprovedApplicationKCC/DO/0047/2023
  6. 2022
    1 Apr

    Proposed refurbishment and upgrading of Dover Discovery Centre including change of use of theatre to office…

    WithdrawnAmendmentKCC/DO/0062/2022

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