Conservation area appraisals

What are conservation area appraisals?

Conservation area appraisals list features like historic buildings, buildings that are locally significant, and important green and open spaces. The documents also point out if anything could be improved.

We use external consultants to prepare our draft conservation area appraisals. We then put them out to consultation, consider any comments made, make amendments, and then publish the final documents.

Once we've finalised the appraisals, we use them to help make decisions about planning applications in, or next to, conservation areas.

Folkestone

We're looking at Folkestone in phases because of its size and diversity.

Folkestone Old Town

Draft conservation area appraisals

The consultation period has finished for the following draft appraisals and we're in the process of looking at comments. You can view the draft documents below.

Etchinghill

Lympne

New Romney 

Newington

Finalised conservation area appraisals

We adopted the following conservation area appraisals on the dates shown. You can view the appraisals and any amendments to the boundaries of the conservation areas below.

Dungeness

The Dungeness Conservation Area Appraisal was adopted on 11 August 2008 and is now a material consideration in the determination of planning applications in or immediately adjacent to the conservation area.

Elham

Frogholt

Hythe

Postling

Saltwood

Sandgate