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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
19,756 approved · 2,538 refused · 2,267 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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59 Caesar Avenue, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3PZ
Received 27 Aug 202093 High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LB
Received 27 Aug 2020Maple House, Upper Queens Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8HJ
Received 28 Aug 2020Former Wye College Woodland Arboretum, Olantigh Road, Wye, Kent
Received 28 Aug 2020Little Smarden House, The Street, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8NB
Received 1 Sept 2020Land north west of, The Moat, Charing
Received 13 Aug 2020Land north of, Taylors Hill, Chilham
Received 1 Sept 202022 Forum Way, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3RJ
Received 2 Sept 2020St Christophers Church, Faversham Road, Boughton Aluph, Kent
Received 2 Sept 202016 Waterside, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0AX
Received 3 Sept 202082 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0NA
Received 7 Sept 2020Stoke House, Church Road, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1RD
Received 7 Sept 202074 Grasmere Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9BG
Received 7 Sept 20202 Woodstock Way, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9BL
Received 7 Sept 2020Former Pig Research Unit, Amage Road, Wye
Received 11 Sept 2020The Gatehouse, Grosvenor Hall, Cemetery Lane, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4AJ
Received 11 Sept 2020Mill Field, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8BB
Received 15 Sept 2020Land south west of St Marys Church, Eastwell Lane, Westwell, Kent
Received 17 Sept 202034 Prospect Way, Brabourne, Ashford, TN25 6RL
Received 16 Sept 202014-16 Church Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5BJ
Received 21 Sept 2020Grass verge outside The Old Vicarage, Canterbury Road, Challock, Kent
Received 22 Sept 202069 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0NA
Received 22 Sept 202069 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0NA
Received 22 Sept 202040 Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LL
Received 23 Sept 2020Records 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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