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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Ashford Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Ashford website
16,105 approved · 2,192 refused · 1,948 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2010 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 at Chilmington Green, Ashford Road, Great Chart, Kent
Received 21 Mar 2022Land south of 10 Viaduct Terrace, Warehorne Road, Warehorne, Kent
Received 21 Mar 2022Newtown Railway Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0PN
Received 21 Mar 20225 Bank Street, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1BZ
Received 21 Mar 202224 Bank Street, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1BE
Received 21 Mar 2022Ashford Hockey Club, Ball Lane, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4EB
Received 21 Mar 20221 Beckets Close, Hastingleigh, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5HS
Received 22 Mar 202264 The Street, Great Chart, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3AP
Received 22 Mar 202222 Wyndham Way, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4PZ
Received 22 Mar 20223 Stace Close, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RP
Received 22 Mar 2022Tequilla, Ashford Road, High Halden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3LY
Received 22 Mar 2022Whispers, Warehorne Road, Warehorne, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2JR
Received 22 Mar 2022Beaconhurst, Knoll Hill, Aldington, Ashford, Kent, TN25 7BZ
Received 22 Mar 2022Land southeast of 1 Wilkinson Close, Ashford Road, Charing, Kent
Received 21 Mar 2022Brabourne Cottage, Canterbury Road, Brabourne, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5LW
Received 22 Mar 2022Brabourne Cottage, Canterbury Road, Brabourne, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5LW
Received 22 Mar 2022Land East of Hope House, Ashford Road, High Halden, Kent
Received 22 Mar 2022Land at Newtown Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 22 Mar 2022Keepers Cottage, Squids Gate Lane, Challock, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4DR
Received 23 Mar 2022Sidelands Farm, Little Olantigh Road, Wye
Received 22 Mar 202221 Chulkhurst, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8ED
Received 23 Mar 202263 Mead Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0BS
Received 23 Mar 202224 Bridewell Lane, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6EY
Received 23 Mar 2022Shop Around The Clock, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6BT
Received 23 Mar 2022Records 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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