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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
17,337 approved · 2,291 refused · 2,026 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Mar 2008 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land adjacent to Old Corn Store, Pluckley Road, Charing, Kent
Received 17 Jan 2019St Ambrose Green, Oxenturn Road, Wye, Kent
Received 18 Jan 201914-16 Church Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5BJ
Received 21 Jan 2019Court Lodge, Eastwell Lane, Westwell, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4JX
Received 23 Jan 2019John Mayne Church of England Primary School, High Street, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8AL
Received 23 Jan 201933 The Meadows, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8AW
Received 24 Jan 20192 Orpins Close, Brabourne, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6PT
Received 24 Jan 2019Myrtle Cottage, The Green, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3QG
Received 29 Jan 20196 Church Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5BJ
Received 31 Jan 201989 High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LB
Received 1 Feb 20197 Upper Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5AF
Received 1 Feb 201936 Church Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5BJ
Received 1 Feb 2019High Snoad Wood, Green Lane, Challock, Kent
Received 31 Jan 201951 Garages rear of 35 to 41, Christchurch Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 8 Feb 2019Site J1, The Boulevard, Sevington
Received 11 Feb 2019Woodchurch Church of England Primary School, Bethersden Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3QJ
Received 13 Feb 201993 High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LB
Received 20 Feb 2019Mulberry House, Penderel Mews, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6QF
Received 21 Feb 20191 Park View Terrace, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6HL
Received 22 Feb 20191 Abbott Way, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7BZ
Received 22 Feb 2019Kent Gliding Club, Squids Gate Lane, Challock, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4DR
Received 26 Feb 201918 Wyndham Way, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4PZ
Received 3 May 20197 Old Vicarage Gardens, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5DG
Received 1 May 2019Townland Farm, 80 Front Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3SA
Received 2 May 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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