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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
24,707 approved · 3,556 refused · 2,719 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Land Rear Of Manorwood House, Woodchurch Road, Shadoxhurst, Kent TN26 1LQ
Received 21 Jul 2022Church Cottage, Rye Road, Newenden, Kent TN18 5PN
Received 21 Jul 2022Land at Chilmington Green, Ashford Road, Kent
Received 21 Jul 2022Low Poles Farm, Fosten Lane, Biddenden, TN27 8EN
Received 21 Jul 2022Briars, Church Hill, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3EG
Received 21 Jul 2022Little Randolphs Farm, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Kent TN27 8BG
Received 21 Jul 2022Meadow View Industrial Estate, Units 8 And 10, Hamstreet Road, Ruckinge, TN26 2NR
Received 21 Jul 202230, Beecholme Drive, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN24 9AA
Received 21 Jul 2022Mercers Of Tenterden, Station Road, Tenterden, TN30 6HE
Received 21 Jul 2022Land at Chilmans Down, Ashford Road, Chilham, Kent, CT4 7DG
Received 21 Jul 2022Yule Cottage, 26 Park Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN24 9DL
Received 22 Jul 2022Sidelands Farm, Little Olantigh Road, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5DQ
Received 22 Jul 2022Lodge Farm, Bowl Road, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0HB
Received 22 Jul 20221 Forge Cottage, Westwell Lane, West Of Westwell, Westwell, Ashford, Kent TN25 4LG
Received 22 Jul 2022Bridgewood Farm, Watery Lane, Westwell, Ashford, Kent TN25 4JJ
Received 22 Jul 2022121 High Street, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6JS
Received 22 Jul 2022Treetops, 59 Tally Ho Road, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent TN26 1HL
Received 25 Jul 202256, Lower Vicarage Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9AS
Received 25 Jul 2022The Garden, Grange Road, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6TL
Received 25 Jul 20222 Vineys Gardens, Tenterden, TN30 7AZ
Received 20 Jul 2022Forstal Farm, Appledore Road, Leigh Green, Tenterden, TN30 7DF
Received 25 Jul 2022Huntbourne Farm, Swain Road, Tenterden, TN30 6SN
Received 21 Jul 2022William Harvey Inn, Sevington Lane, Willesborough, TN24 0JG
Received 25 Jul 2022Site Office Precinct 13, Ashford Road, High Halden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3LY
Received 25 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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