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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
20,598 approved · 2,659 refused · 2,340 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Dec 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Land east of Long Length and south of, Merino Way, Kingsnorth, Kent
Received 7 Jan 2021Tile House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7LL
Received 8 Jan 2021Drayson House, 2 The Green, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3PB
Received 14 Jan 202146 The Street, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9HD
Received 18 Jan 2021174 Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9AE
Received 19 Jan 20217 The Lindens, St Benets Way, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6QT
Received 18 Jan 2021174 Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9AE
Received 19 Jan 2021Beacon House, The Street, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3AE
Received 19 Jan 20215 Rothley Close, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LP
Received 19 Jan 2021Plovers, The Street, Westwell, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4LQ
Received 20 Jan 202120 Maytham Road, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 4NP
Received 21 Jan 2021Part of Dawbourne Wood north of 1 Dawbourne House, Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent
Received 20 Jan 202163 Aylesbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4QH
Received 22 Jan 20212 Vesper Court, Smarden, Ashford, TN27 8LZ
Received 26 Jan 2021Land south west of Loudon Court, Lockholt Close, Ashford, Kent
Received 27 Jan 2021161 Springwood Drive, Ashford, TN23 3LH
Received 28 Jan 202143 Lucilla Avenue, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3PU
Received 29 Jan 2021The Gardeners Cottage Westwell, Rolvenden Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6TT
Received 1 Feb 20213 Arden Grange, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8DR
Received 1 Feb 2021Cheyney House, 8 Stable Court, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8DB
Received 3 Feb 2021Little Smarden House, The Street, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8NB
Received 4 Feb 2021Middlecroft, 2 The Croft, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RG
Received 5 Feb 2021Orchard Lodge, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8BB
Received 9 Feb 2021Ashminster House, Clive Dennis Court, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0LX
Received 11 Feb 2021Records 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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