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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
19,218 approved · 2,472 refused · 2,220 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Dec 2006 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Blue Shutters, 36 High Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5AL
Received 28 Oct 201910 Beacon Oak Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RY
Received 30 Oct 2019Wolfson House, Upper Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5AN
Received 4 Nov 2019Old School House, The Street, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0QB
Received 4 Nov 2019Westwell Court, Eastwell Lane, Westwell, Kent
Received 4 Nov 2019The Garden, Grange Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6TL
Received 4 Nov 201912 Kiln Field, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7BY
Received 4 Nov 2019Walnut Tree House, The Grove, Charing, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0LD
Received 6 Nov 2019Top to Tail, 272 Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9AN
Received 7 Nov 2019All Saints Church, Bethersden Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3QJ
Received 7 Nov 20197 Dovecote Court, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8DB
Received 12 Nov 2019Wakeley House, 71 High Street, Charing, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0LS
Received 14 Nov 201952 Upper Queens Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8HF
Received 14 Nov 201924 Richmond Meech Drive, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9RF
Received 18 Nov 201917 Knockwood Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7AP
Received 20 Nov 2019Orbital Marketing Services Group, The Boulevard, Sevington, Ashford, TN24 0GA
Received 20 Nov 2019The Green, Ashford Road, High Halden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3LP
Received 20 Nov 2019Samares, The Green, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4HX
Received 20 Nov 20198 Lime Grove, Ashford, TN24 8AE
Received 22 Nov 2019Orchard House, 47 The Street, Appledore, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2BU
Received 25 Nov 2019Willow Tree Barn, Grange Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6EE
Received 26 Nov 20191 Elwick Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1PD
Received 27 Nov 201965 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0NA
Received 28 Nov 2019Home Meadow, Ram Lane, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0PU
Received 2 Dec 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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