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CON/25/00040/A - Conditions Approved
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Discharge of condition 7 (biodiversity gain plan) pursuant to application - Installation of 7 electric vehicle charging stations with associated equipment (substation and feeder pillar) and underground cabling Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 May 2026
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Approved
16 Jun 2026

Approved on 16 Jun 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 7

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF 25/00040 - DECISION NOTICE Decision · 26 May 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 5

PDF ECOLOGY COMMENTS Consultee Response · 15 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF BIODIVERSITY GAIN PLAN Other · 22 May 2026 View ↗ PDF BIODIVERSITY METRIC Report · 22 May 2026 View ↗ PDF BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN STRATEGY (REVISION 2) Other · 22 May 2026 View ↗ PDF CONDITION ASSESSMENT Other · 22 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 22 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 4

Site constraints 10

Kent Downs National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Open access land
Open country or registered common land, with a right to roam on foot.
Building on registered common land needs the consent of the Secretary of State as well as planning permission.
Heritage coast: South Foreland
A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.
Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.
Special area of conservation about 63 m away: Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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 4. 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.
SSSI about 63 m away: Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Lowland calcareous grassland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 6
An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 11 m away: Lowland calcareous grassland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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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Important details

Council
Dover
Application type
Conditions
Postcode
CT16 1HJ
Received
22 May 2026
Validated
22 May 2026
Ward
Guston Kingsdown St Margarets-at-Cliffe
Parish
GUSTON
Case officer
Show
Target decision
17 Jul 2026
Decision
Condition Approved
Decision date
16 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Agent
Gravis Planning

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
17 Jul 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

4 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025
Installation of 7 electric vehicle charging stations with associated equipment (substatio…
25/00040
2025
Installation of 7 electric vehicle charging stations with associated equipment (substatio…
25/00040
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2017 Refused
Car Park And Access National Trust Land At The White Cliffs Langdon Cliffs Guston CT16 1HJ
Alterations to existing car parks and access roads and creation of additional parking
17/01378
2016 Refused
Land At Fox Hill Down Langdon Cliffs Guston Dover CT16 1HJ
Condition 6 - Details of Annual Monitoring
CON/15/01055/C
Dover
Planning Authority Score
7.4/10
Good
#46 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Dover is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #28 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Dover decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #151 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #151 of 296
83%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #28 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #57 of 296
72%
Minor dwellings approved
105 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
56 decided
772
Total decisions
89 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings