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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
16,296 approved · 2,201 refused · 1,956 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2010 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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New Luckhurst Farm, Bethersden Road, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8QT
Received 1 Apr 2022240 Beaver Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 7SW
Received 8 Apr 2022Willow Tree Barn, Palstre Court Road, Wittersham, Ashford, Kent, TN30 7PZ
Received 8 Apr 2022Land north of Possingham Farmhouse, Ashford Road, Great Chart, Kent (TN26 1JR)
Received 8 Apr 20222 Owen Court, Poplar Road, Wittersham, Tenterden, TN30 7PD
Received 11 Apr 202233 Forgefield, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3BL
Received 11 Apr 2022Hookstead, Faversham Road, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4PQ
Received 11 Apr 2022Bybrook House, Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9QA
Received 11 Apr 2022Bybrook House, Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9QA
Received 11 Apr 2022Agricultural buildings at New House Farm, Gribble Bridge Lane, Biddenden, Kent
Received 20 Apr 2022Stockbridge Farm building, Ashford Road, Warehorne, Kent, TN26 2QL
Received 20 Apr 2022Land south of junction of Beaver Road and, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 21 Apr 2022Mill Bank Place, Mill Lane, Pluckley, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0SL
Received 20 Apr 2022Site of Pluckley Brickworks, Station Road, Pluckley, Kent
Received 4 Apr 202270 Churchfield Way, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5ET
Received 4 Apr 202226 Rosewood Drive, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4QF
Received 4 Apr 2022Tudor Cottage, Calleywell Lane, Aldington, Ashford, Kent, TN25 7DU
Received 4 Apr 202248-50 Maytham Road, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 4NP
Received 4 Apr 2022Littlefield, Pluckley Road, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8NL
Received 4 Apr 2022The Stour Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford, TN23 1PL
Received 4 Apr 2022Middlecroft, 2 The Croft, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RG
Received 4 Apr 2022Middlecroft, 2 The Croft, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RG
Received 4 Apr 202291 Mead Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0BT
Received 4 Apr 2022Prospect House, School Road, Appledore, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2BA
Received 4 Apr 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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