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CON/24/00006/C - Conditions Awaiting decision

Proposal

Discharge of condition 9 (Suds), condition 15 (Surface water drainage), condition 12 (contamination), condition 17 (excavations), condition 24 (archaeology), conidtion 25 (risk assessment), condition 26 Construction environmental management plan, condition 27 (tree and hedge protection), condition 28 (biodiversity), condition 30 (ecology) pursuant to application Outline planning application for up to 15 residential dwellings with all matters reserved except for access Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

3 Sept 2025

Decision

Target date was 29 Oct 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 29 Oct 2025.

Documents 49

Statements & assessments 13

PDF ECOLOGY COMMENTS Consultee Response · 7 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF 1309-IDL-SW-00-DR-0705REVT01 DRAINAGE DETAILS SHEET 1 OF 2 Amended Drawing · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 1309-IDL-SW-00-DR-0701REVT04 DRAINAGE LAYOUT Amended Drawing · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 1309-07-DAP-02REVT04 DRAINAGE AREA PLAN Amended Drawing · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF REVISED ARB ASSESSMENT Other · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF FLOOD AND WATER MANAGEMENT Consultee Response · 13 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF CLARIFICATION (ADDENDUM) ? BIODIVERSITY & ECOLOGY Report · 30 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF CLARIFICATION (ADDENDUM) ? BIODIVERSITY & ECOLOGY Other · 21 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF COVER LETTER - DRAINAGE Correspondence · 30 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 1309-07-05REVP01_DRAINAGE DETAILS SHEET 1 OF 2 Other · 3 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 1309-07-06REVP01_DRAINAGE DETAILS SHEET 2 OF 2 Other · 3 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF 1309-IDL-SW-00-DR-0701REVP02 DRAINAGE LAYOUT Other · 3 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF ECOLOGICAL DESIGN STRATEGY_NEW TOWNSEND FARM Report · 20 May 2024 View ↗

Plans & drawings 5

PDF 1309-IDL-SW-00-DR-0605REVT01 EXTERNAL FINISHES DETAILS Amended Drawing · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 1309-IDL-SW-00-DR-0601REVT02 EXTERNAL FINISHES LAYOUT Amended Drawing · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF 1309-IDL-SW-00-DR-0501REVT05 EXTERNAL LEVELS Amended Drawing · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF REVISED LEVELS PLAN Other · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF NEW TOWNSEND FARM CONSTRUCTION SURFACE WATER PLAN Report · 20 May 2024 View ↗

Consultation & comments 9

Site constraints 6

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.

Article 4 direction

Town and Country Planning Direction No. 2, 1974, Town and COuntry Planning General Development Order 1973. 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.

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) agrees.

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: Network Expansion Zone

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.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 11 October 2026. 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
Received: 3 Sept 2025
Validated: 3 Sept 2025
Ward: Guston Kingsdown St Margarets-at-Cliffe
Parish: ST MARGARETS AT CLIFFE
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 29 Oct 2025
Agent: DHA Planning

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 26 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 29 Oct 2025
Env. assessment: No

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

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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