Residential development, Swingfield Minnis
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Residential development, Swingfield Minnis
Image: © John Baker Taken: 5 Oct 2011
The site is on land adjoining Swingfield House. Planning permission has been approved, with conditions, by Folkestone and Hythe District Council under application number Y09/0738/SH for the “erection of 6 affordable housing units and provision of new access road”. It appears from the related documents for this planning application that an abattoir one stood on the site, which would have meant that other buildings could be erected, bearing in mind that there are constraints for new buildings in areas of outstanding natural beauty (under which this site falls). The dictionary meaning of ‘lairage’ is a place where cattle are housed. The development also includes provision for a new access road which will emerge onto the lane near the electricity pole. Before the development started, this corner of the site appeared as Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.14632
Longitude
1.166765