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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
21,176 approved · 2,802 refused · 2,397 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
103 High Street, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LB
Received 12 Nov 2021Repton Manor, Repton Avenue, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3GP
Received 15 Nov 202193 Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5ED
Received 15 Nov 2021Culvers, Ball Lane, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4EB
Received 15 Nov 20211 St Benets Way, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6QQ
Received 16 Nov 20211 Rother View, Lossenham Lane, Newenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN18 5PY
Received 17 Nov 2021Electricity Sub Station On The West Side Of, Old Ashford Road, Charing, Kent
Received 19 Nov 2021Charing Church of England Primary School, School Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0JN
Received 22 Nov 2021The Acorns, Smarden Road, Pluckley, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0SN
Received 24 Nov 202122 The Street, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9HB
Received 24 Nov 20218 Elmfield, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RE
Received 24 Nov 20215 Lime Grove, Ashford, TN24 8AE
Received 25 Nov 202114 St Benets Way, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6QQ
Received 29 Nov 20215 St Ambrose Green, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5AG
Received 29 Nov 2021The Dragon House, The Street, Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8NA
Received 30 Nov 202131 Belmore Park, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8UW
Received 1 Dec 2021Tesco Stores Ltd, Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0YE
Received 7 Dec 2021Churchlands Farmhouse, The Street, Stone, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7JT
Received 8 Dec 2021Biddenden Place, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8BB
Received 8 Dec 2021Little Burton Farm House, George Williams Way, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9RZ
Received 10 Dec 20212 Primrose Drive, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3NP
Received 13 Dec 202143 Belmore Park, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8UW
Received 22 Dec 20213 Holly Meadows, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3QR
Received 23 Dec 20214 Sweet Bay Crescent, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3QA
Received 23 Dec 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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