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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
24,629 approved · 3,536 refused · 2,712 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Newtown Railway Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, TN24 0PN
Received 19 Jul 2022Walnut Lodge, Ball Lane, Kennington, TN25 4EB
Received 13 Jul 2022Land between the Pig & Whistle Farmhouse and Minden Cottage, Ashford Rd, , Great Chart.
Received 15 Jul 2022Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, TN25 4AH
Received 19 Jul 2022The Parsonage, Watery Lane, Westwell, TN25 4JH
Received 14 Jul 2022Balcony Farm, Haycross Lane, Woodchurch, TN26 3TF
Received 19 Jul 2022Cedarmount, The Street, Egerton, TN27 9AH
Received 19 Jul 202237, Towner Close, Charing, TN27 0BF
Received 18 Jul 2022Ashford College, Elwick Road, Ashford, TN23 1NN
Received 19 Jul 2022Loudon Wood, Sweet Bay Crescent, Ashford, TN23 3HL
Received 19 Jul 2022Blindgrooms Farmhouse, Blindgrooms Lane, Shadoxhurst, TN26 1HN
Received 19 Jul 202217, Magazine Road, Ashford, TN24 8NJ
Received 19 Jul 202272, Bentley Road, Willesborough, Kent TN24 0HR
Received 19 Jul 20221 Bannister Houses, The Street, Little Chart, TN27 0QF
Received 19 Jul 2022William Harvey Inn, Sevington Lane, Willesborough, TN24 0JG
Received 19 Jul 2022The Green, Wye Road, Boughton Aluph, Kent, TN25 4HP
Received 19 Jul 2022Land north of Warehorne Road, Hamstreet
Received 19 Jul 2022Manuells, The Street, Brook, TN25 5PF
Received 20 Jul 20229, Temple Close, Kingsnorth, TN23 3PW
Received 20 Jul 2022Stour Fishing Complex, Bobbin Lodge Hill, Chartham, CT4 7DD
Received 20 Jul 2022Land North of Willesborough Road, Conningbrook
Received 20 Jul 2022Former Ingleden Park Riding Centre, Plot 2, Swain Road, Tenterden, TN30 6SL
Received 20 Jul 2022Land north of Warehorne Road, Hamstreet
Received 20 Jul 202239, Western Avenue, Ashford, Kent TN23 1LY
Received 21 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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