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Dungeness Borrow Pit, Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent, TN29 9NA

KCC/FH/0128/2025Approved

Approved on 23 October 2026

Council decision: Granted With Conditions & Legal Agreement20 conditions

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

Proposal

Continuation of seasonal shingle recycling operations beyond October 2026, for the purpose of recovering material used in the maintenance of flood defences at Dungeness

Submitted
3 October 2025
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.17 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 385 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Dungeness Borrow Pit, Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent, TN29 9NA. Kent has handled 551 applications of this type. This one was decided in 385 days, 47 weeks longer than Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the Dungeness conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 834 applications in total for the TN29 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
TN29 9NA
Scale / size
Small
District
Folkestone & Hythe District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2025
Consultation expiry
17 November 2025
Consultation end
17 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Dungeness
  • SSSI: Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay SSSI+1 more
  • Special Area of Conservation: Dungeness
  • National nature reserve: Dungeness
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (17)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, 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, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, 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.

Source: Kent

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