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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
24,544 approved · 3,506 refused · 2,709 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land South West of The Old Corn Store, Pluckley Road, Charing, Kent
Received 6 Jul 2022Delta, Laws Lane, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 7HG
Received 27 Jun 2022Rough Withers, Chapel Lane, Egerton, Ashford, TN27 9BX
Received 30 Jun 2022Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School, Church Hill, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3EF
Received 1 Jul 2022Site south of roundabout at Bridge Road, Ashford Kent
Received 11 Jul 2022St Michaels Church Of England Primary School, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, TN30 6PU
Received 17 Jun 2022Old Forge House, The Green, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, TN25 4JB
Received 20 Jun 20228 North Street, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8AQ
Received 21 Jun 2022Public Convenience Ashford Borough Council, Churchfield Way, Wye
Received 22 Jun 2022114 High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6HT
Received 27 Jun 202250 Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LL
Received 24 Jun 2022Maple Tree Lodge, Chart Road, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3TB
Received 27 Jun 2022Oakhurst, Hamstreet Road, Ruckinge, Ashford, TN26 2NU
Received 23 Jun 202224 Bridewell Lane, Tenterden, TN30 6EY
Received 29 Jun 20226 The Green, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3PF
Received 27 Jun 2022Office Building at, Ford Mill, The Street, Little Chart, Ashford, TN27 0QA
Received 8 Jun 2022Eastwell Manor Hotel, Faversham Road, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, TN25 4HR
Received 1 Jul 2022Twitten Cottage, The Pavement, Tenterden, TN30 6DR
Received 28 Jun 2022Duxbury, Church Hill, High Halden, Ashford, TN26 3JB
Received 5 Jul 202258 Lucilla Avenue, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3PS
Received 4 Jul 202250 Upper Queens Road, Ashford, TN24 8HF
Received 8 Jul 202258 Ashford Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6LR
Received 11 Jul 2022Maple Tree Lodge, Chart Road, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3TB
Received 5 Jul 2022Site South of Tank Roundabout, Bridge Road, Ashford
Received 12 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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