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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24,449 approved · 3,486 refused · 2,693 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Tree Tops, Bedlam Lane, Smarden, Ashford, TN27 8PQ
Received 5 Jul 2022Beechwood Drive, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, TN30 6FP
Received 8 Jul 2022Watersheet Farm, Bedlam Lane, Egerton, Ashford, TN27 9DA
Received 5 Jul 2022Blackmore Farm, Station Road, Appledore, Ashford, TN26 2DF
Received 7 Jul 2022The Crooked Barn, Little Hookstead Farm, Wrens Nest Lane, High Halden, Ashford, TN26 3NH
Received 8 Jul 2022116 Beaver Lane, Ashford, TN23 5NX
Received 15 Jul 2022Ashford College, Elwick Road, Ashford, TN23 1NN
Received 21 Jun 202219 Harmers Way, Egerton, Ashford, TN27 9DN
Received 7 Jul 20221 Lime Grove, Ashford, TN24 8AE
Received 5 Jul 2022Little Paddock Farm, Canterbury Road, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4DW
Received 15 Jul 2022Gusbourne Estate Vineyard, Kenardington Road, Appledore, Ashford, TN26 2BE
Received 15 Jul 2022Pipers Farm, Puddingcake Lane, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, TN17 4JS
Received 8 Jul 2022Newtown Railway Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, TN24 0PN
Received 6 Jul 202224 Cypress Avenue, Ashford, TN23 3JP
Received 30 Jun 2022240 Beaver Road, Ashford, TN23 7SW
Received 4 Jul 2022Legge Farm, Appledore Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3TL
Received 8 Jul 2022William Harvey Hospital, Kennington Road, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0LZ
Received 6 Jul 20223 Elmfield, Tenterden, TN30 6RE
Received 8 Jul 2022Land to the west of Greenways, Warehorne Road, Kenardington
Received 8 Jul 2022Applefield, Redbrook Street, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3QS
Received 6 Jul 2022Smallhythe House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LN
Received 7 Jul 2022Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 4AH
Received 6 Jul 2022Unit 1, Hall Avenue, Orbital Park, Sevington, Ashford, TN24 0AA
Received 7 Jun 20223 Culter Field, Singleton, Ashford, TN23 4YU
Received 8 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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