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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
21,778 approved · 2,913 refused · 2,454 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Apr 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Rolvenden Primary School, Hastings Road, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 4LS
Received 1 Jun 2022Bienvenue, Burleigh Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0JB
Received 1 Jun 2022Monks Hill Cottages, Church Road, Warehorne, Kent
Received 1 Jun 2022Tesco Stores Ltd, Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0YE
Received 7 Jun 2022Clare Cottage, The Green, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4HX
Received 6 Jun 20221 The Chestnuts, Smeeth, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6SU
Received 7 Jun 2022Court Lodge, Eastwell Lane, Westwell, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4JX
Received 7 Jun 2022The Rectory, 36 High Street, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8AH
Received 8 Jun 2022Deepwell House, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8DB
Received 7 Jun 2022The Invicta Press, Lower Queens Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8HH
Received 9 Jun 20224 Shepherd Close, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3GT
Received 10 Jun 20221 Leacon Cottages, Chart Road, Great Chart, Ashford, TN23 3AD
Received 10 Jun 2022Leacon Cottage, Church Road, Warehorne, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2JX
Received 13 Jun 2022Peter Adams Trust, The Thorne Estate Office, Forge Hill, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3AF
Received 14 Jun 2022The Conningbrook Hotel, 315 Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9QR
Received 10 Jun 2008Millands, Bethersden Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3QW
Received 13 Jun 20086 Warren Heights, Plain Road, Smeeth, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6TG
Received 13 Jun 2008Gold House, Warehorne Road, Warehorne, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2JX
Received 26 Jun 20084 Warren Heights, Plain Road, Smeeth, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6TG
Received 26 Jun 2008Sycamore House, Church Road, Warehorne, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2LP
Received 2 Jul 2008Woodland Adjoining Helmdon, Nickley Wood Road, Shadoxhurst, Kent
Received 17 Jul 2008129 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0NB
Received 21 Jul 200826 Northbrooke, Ashford, TN24 8DZ
Received 21 Jul 2008Land at, St Ambrose Green, Wye, Kent
Received 24 Jul 2008Records 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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