Dungeness Borrow Pit, Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent, TN29 9NA Data via plota.co.uk

KCC/FH/0128/2025 Approved

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 Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 26 Oct 2026, 11:02

Application progress

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Received

3 Oct 2025

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Approved

23 Oct 2026

Approved on 23 Oct 2026 · Last checked 26 Oct 2026

Documents 47

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Officer Report FH/25/1883 Dungeness Borrow Pit - Redacted Document · 2310-20-26 View ↗ PDF FH/25/1883 Decision Notice Document · 2310-20-26 View ↗

Statements & assessments 19

Site constraints 8

Special area of conservation: Dungeness

2 designations overlap here. A habitats assessment is needed.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

SSSI: Rye Harbour 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.

Dungeness conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

Public footpath about 17 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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. A site survey can differ.

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.

Habitat network: Coastal vegetated shingle

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 319 m away: South Brooks Solar Farm, at pre-application; Priority habitat about 14 m away: Coastal vegetated shingle.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 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 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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Important details

Council: Kent County Council
Postcode: TN29 9NA
Validated: 3 Oct 2025
Decision: Granted With Conditions & Legal Agreement
Decision date: 23 Oct 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: WSP UK Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 385 days from validation, 329 days slower than Kent County Council's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 87% of full applications here are.

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