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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Ashford Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
7,834 approved · 1,535 refused · 1,135 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Nov 2016 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land south of junction of Beaver Road and, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 4 Jul 2019Land between Mill House and 8, Orchard Lane, Challock, Kent
Received 4 Jul 201915 Glebe Close, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8NG
Received 4 Jul 2019Great Pested Farmhouse, Pested Lane, Challock, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4BG
Received 5 Jul 2019Chequer Tree Barn, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 7HL
Received 5 Jul 2019Units 1 to 4, Paddocks Farm, Bethersden Road, Hothfield, Ashford, Kent, TN26 1EN
Received 5 Jul 201936 Canon Woods Way, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9QY
Received 8 Jul 2019Land to the rear of The Red Lion Public House, Egerton Road, Charing, Kent
Received 8 Jul 2019Brissenden, Brissenden Green Lane, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3BE
Received 15 Jul 2019Hootsville, Stalisfield Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0NP
Received 16 Jul 2019Shorts Wood House, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8DW
Received 22 Jul 2019The Panorama, Park Street, Ashford, Kent
Received 22 Jul 2019Holly Lodge, Amage Road, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5DF
Received 22 Jul 2019The Firs, Buck Street, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4AR
Received 23 Jul 2019Snowdrops, Church Lane, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4DD
Received 22 Jul 2019Little Gill Barn, Gill Lane, Mersham, Ashford, Kent, TN25 7HZ
Received 23 Jul 201923 Tufton Street, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1QN
Received 23 Jul 201912 Kirk View, Singleton, Ashford, Kent, TN23 5HQ
Received 24 Jul 2019Apple Garth, Canterbury Road, Challock, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4DF
Received 24 Jul 20198 Collison Place, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7BU
Received 25 Jul 2019Land south of junction of Wrens Nest Lane and, Thurstons Lane, High Halden, Kent
Received 24 Jul 201934-36 Front Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3QE
Received 8 Jul 201988 The Ridge, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9EU
Received 8 Jul 2019Land known as Cromptons Barn Field, Church Hill, Charing
Received 9 Jul 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ashford Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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