The Elms School, Elms Vale Road, Dover, Kent, CT17 9PS

KCC/NMA/DO/0161/2025AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 December 2025

Council decision: Details Approved2 conditions

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

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment to planning permission DO/24/487 to install 1100mm high curved back handrailing instead of the bull nose fascia boarding originally permitted

Submitted: 1 December 2025
Council: Kent County Council

ReceivedSubmitted1 Dec
ValidatedValidated1 Dec
Consult.Consultation15 Dec
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided29 Dec

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Elms School, Elms Vale Road, Dover, Kent, CT17 9PS. Kent has handled 65 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 592 applications in total for the CT17 postcode area.

100% of amendment 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: CT17 9PS
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Small
District: Dover District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 December 2025
Consultation expiry: 15 December 2025
Consultation end: 15 December 2025

Additional information

Documents: 8

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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, 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.

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

Source: Kent

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