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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
24,449 approved · 3,486 refused · 2,693 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jul 2004 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Office Building at, Ford Mill, The Street, Little Chart, Ashford, TN27 0QA
Received 28 Jun 2022Land to the north of St Marys Close and east of, Ashford Road, Hamstreet
Received 30 Jun 2022Five Bells, The Street, Brabourne, Ashford, TN25 5LP
Received 15 Jul 2022Egerton Farm Holding, Forstal Lane, Egerton, Kent
Received 28 Jun 2022Barn at, Maid Morton, Hythe Road, Smeeth
Received 1 Jul 2022Network Rail, Old Railway Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, TN24 0PN
Received 15 Jul 2022Bridleway, Mill Lane, Kennington, Ashford, TN25 4EL
Received 22 Jun 20222 North Street, Ashford, TN24 8JN
Received 5 Jul 2022Braid Farm Campsite, Braid Farm, Burnthouse Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PT
Received 4 Jul 202231 Lancaster Close, Hamstreet, Ashford, TN26 2JG
Received 5 Jul 2022Rose Villa, The Street, Stone, Tenterden, TN30 7JN
Received 4 Jul 2022Frensham Green, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4NE
Received 15 Jul 2022Ashenden Farm, Bell Lane, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8LD
Received 5 Jul 2022Bellfield Farm, Bonnington Road, Bonnington, Ashford, TN25 7BP
Received 6 Jul 202239 Kestrel Close, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3RB
Received 11 Jul 2022The Cosy Kettle, The Lantern Building, The Street, Hamstreet, Ashford, TN26 2HE
Received 29 Jun 2022Coach House, Hookstead, High Halden, Ashford, TN26 3NE
Received 7 Jul 2022Rother Lea, Lossenham Lane, Newenden, Cranbrook, TN18 5QD
Received 6 Jul 2022Former Houchin Playing Fields, Canterbury Road, Kennington
Received 1 Jul 20221 High Street, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, TN17 4LP
Received 15 Jul 2022Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 4AH
Received 6 Jul 2022Forge House, The Street, Shadoxhurst, Ashford, TN26 1LU
Received 6 Jul 2022Ashford Prep School, Ashford Road, Great Chart, Ashford, TN23 3DJ
Received 11 Jul 2022Agricultural Barn at, Pig and Whistle Farmhouse, Ashford Road, Great Chart
Received 6 Jul 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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