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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
19,962 approved · 2,561 refused · 2,284 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Perrin House, The Street, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8NA
Received 1 Aug 2013Lion House, Church Hill, High Halden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3LS
Received 5 Aug 201313 Romsey Close, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0QX
Received 18 Nov 2013Sycamore House, Church Road, Warehorne, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2LP
Received 6 Aug 20133 Alexandra Villas, The Street, Chilham, Canterbury, CT4 8BX
Received 7 Aug 2013Chennel Cottage, The Pavement, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6DR
Received 7 Aug 2013Little Criol Wood, Criol Lane, Shadoxhurst
Received 8 Aug 2013Kennington House, 9 The Street, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9EX
Received 9 Aug 2013Unit E, Foster Road, Ashford Business Park, Sevington, Ashford, TN24 0SH
Received 20 Aug 2013Venruth, Redbrook Street, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3QU
Received 20 Aug 201361 Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5ED
Received 21 Aug 20132 Holly Cottage, The Pavement, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6DP
Received 22 Aug 2013Danehurst, Frensham Road, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 4NJ
Received 27 Aug 2013Kennington House, 9 The Street, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9EX
Received 27 Aug 2013Disused railway line between Col Stephens Way and, Drury Road, Tenterden, Kent
Received 28 Aug 2013The Larches, 1 Vineys Gardens, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7AZ
Received 29 Aug 20132 Vineys Gardens, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7AZ
Received 29 Aug 2013Land at Squidsgate Wood, Canterbury Road, Charing, Kent
Received 29 Aug 2013Burlington House, Canterbury Road, Challock, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4BJ
Received 2 Sept 2013Post Farm, 27 The Street, Hothfield, Ashford, Kent, TN26 1ES
Received 3 Sept 201389 High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LB
Received 3 Sept 2013Grass verge in front of 15 to 17, The Green, Woodchurch, Kent
Received 5 Sept 20132 Church Hill, Chilham, Canterbury, CT4 8DA
Received 5 Sept 2013Bay Tree Cottage, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6NQ
Received 6 Sept 2013Records 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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