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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
21,615 approved · 2,875 refused · 2,441 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Woodgate House, The Street, Shadoxhurst, Ashford, TN26 1LU
Received 23 Feb 202234 High Street, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 4LN
Received 23 Feb 2022St Margaret's Church, Church Hill, Bethersden
Received 24 Feb 202211 The Street, Wittersham, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7EA
Received 24 Feb 2022Woodcote, Woodchurch Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7AD
Received 2 Mar 20228 Rectory Close, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3QD
Received 3 Mar 2022St Marys Church, Church Hill, Chilham
Received 3 Mar 2022The Old Forge, Westwell Lane, Westwell, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4LG
Received 9 Mar 2022The Vicarage, Church Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6AT
Received 3 Mar 202229 The Moat, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0JH
Received 8 Mar 202211 Oaks Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RD
Received 10 Mar 202226 Albert Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8NX
Received 14 Mar 2022Tesco Stores Ltd, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7LN
Received 14 Mar 2022West House, 66-72 High Street, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 4LW
Received 17 Mar 20228 Dennes Mill Close, Wye, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5DR
Received 21 Mar 2022Chapel Cottage, Back Lane, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3QG
Received 21 Mar 20225 Lime Grove, Ashford, TN24 8AE
Received 21 Mar 2022The Moat, Ashford Road, Charing, Kent
Received 22 Mar 20221 Denelees, Wye Road, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, TN25 4HH
Received 22 Mar 2022239 Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9QW
Received 22 Mar 2022Oxney House, 32 The Street, Wittersham, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7ED
Received 22 Mar 20224 The Croft, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6RG
Received 24 Mar 2022East Wing, Old Cloth Hall, North Street, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8AG
Received 22 Mar 2022Ashstone House, Hamstreet Road, Hamstreet, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2EB
Received 29 Mar 2022Records 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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