RICHBOROUGH ENERGY PARK Sandwich Road, Cliffsend, Kent, CT13 9NL Data via plota.co.uk

CON/TH/26/0874 - Conditions Pending Consideration
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Application for approval of Condition 6 (Verification Report) attached to planning permission for the "Extension of electricity battery storage facility to provide additional 249mw capacity including electrical plant and equipment, alterations to land levels, landscaping and associated works, following removal of existing wind turbine, site clearance and levelling" to allow amendments to the approved layout of the battery storage scheme and land levels Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
11 Aug 2026
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Validated
18 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 13 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 13 Nov 2026.

Documents 2

Statements & assessments 1

PDF drainage report Report/Statement · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Forms/Certificates · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗

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Associated applications 4

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    Conditions variation sought for

Site constraints 9

SSSI: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes SSSI
Natural England must be consulted on work that may affect it.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Article 4 direction
Birchington & Rural ED. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
In flood zones plus climate change
Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From the sea. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.
Flood map ↗
Priority habitat: Good quality semi improved grassland
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
National infrastructure project 58 m away: Thanet Extension Offshore Wind Farm
The site is 58 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Richborough Connection Project (decided, 76 m); Sea Link (awaiting the Secretary of State's decision, 333 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Habitat network: Sssi
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Special protection area 377 m away: Thanet Coast & Sandwich Bay; Coalfield, development low risk area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Council
Thanet
Application type
Conditions
Postcode
CT13 9NL
Received
11 Aug 2026
Validated
18 Sept 2026
Ward
Thanet Villages
Parish
Minster Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
13 Nov 2026
Decision level
Delegated decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Pacific Green

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
13 Nov 2026

Historical activity at this location

25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2024 Approved
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2024 Approved
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Variation of condition 2 of planning permission F/TH/22/0579 for the "Extension of electr…
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2019 Approved
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2016 Refused
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Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for a Certificate of Lawful Development for the proposed installation of elec…
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2024 Approved
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for a Certificate of Lawful Development for the proposed installation of elec…
CD/TH/24/0477
2023 Withdrawn
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of Condition 6 (Verification Report) attached to Planning Permis…
CON/TH/23/1455
2023 Withdrawn
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of Condition 6 (Verification Report) attached to Planning Permis…
CON/TH/23/1456
2023 Approved
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of Conditions 3 (Construction Management Plan) attached to Plann…
CON/TH/23/0285
2023 Withdrawn
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of Condition 8 (Contamination) attached to Planning Permission F…
CON/TH/23/0447
2021 Approved
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of condition 3 (Construction Management Plan) attached to planni…
CON/TH/21/1812
2022 Approved
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of conditions 3 (Landscaping), 5 (Surface Water Drainage), 7 (Co…
CON/TH/22/0438
2022 Approved
Richborough Energy Park Sandwich Road RAMSGATE Kent CT13 9NL
Application for approval of conditions 3 (Landscaping), 5 (Surface Water Drainage), 7 (Co…
CON/TH/22/0437
2021 Approved
Land South Of Petrol Filling Station Ramsgate Road Sandwich CT13 9NL
13 - Delivery and Servicing Management Plan
CON/21/00629/A
2021 Approved
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Variation of conditions 2 (approved plans), 3 (materials), 4 (archaeological), 5 (constru…
21/00629
Thanet
Planning Authority Score
4.5/10
Below average
#175 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Thanet ranks #171 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Thanet decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
91%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #103 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #122 of 296
62%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #171 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #196 of 296
79%
Minor dwellings approved
105 decided (1-9 homes)
85%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
90%
Change of use approved
50 decided
751
Total decisions
67 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings