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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
25,565 approved · 3,727 refused · 2,786 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2003 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 of Viaduct Terrace and adjacent to railway line, Warehorne Road, Warehorne
Received 23 Sept 2022120 Lakemead, Singleton, Ashford, Kent TN23 4XZ
Received 26 Sept 2022Kingsmill Barn, Ashford Road, Kingsnorth, TN23 3EW
Received 27 Sept 2022Bromley Green Farm, Ashford Road, Hamstreet, TN26 2EW
Received 27 Sept 2022Maytham Farmhouse, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4QA
Received 25 Aug 2022Impkin Cottage, Faversham Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent TN27 0NN
Received 26 Sept 2022Two Oaks Barn, Bonnington, Ashford, TN25 7AW
Received 26 Sept 202210, Wells Close, Tenterden, TN30 6QJ
Received 27 Sept 2022Beynon Cottage, The Street, Brook, TN25 5PG
Received 27 Sept 2022Field to West of National Grid Converter Station, Church Lane, Aldington, Kent, TN25 6AF
Received 27 Sept 2022Vitters Oak, Agricultural Buildings At, Old Surrenden Manor Road, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3DW
Received 27 Sept 2022Land Between Ransley Oast & Greenside, Ashford Road, Ashford, TN26 3LL
Received 27 Sept 2022Waters Land, Grange Road, Tenterden, TN30 6TJ
Received 27 Sept 2022Land East of Hope House, Ashford Road
Received 27 Sept 20222, Elmhurst Close, Ashford, TN25 4PT
Received 28 Sept 2022Land west of, 21 The Spinney, Ashford, Kent TN23 3LF
Received 28 Sept 2022Little Singleton Farm, Barn at Goldwell Lane, Great Chart, Ashford, Kent TN26 1JS
Received 30 Aug 2022Land north east of Conningbrook Avenue and Conningbrook Lakes, Blackwall Road, Wye, Kent
Received 28 Sept 202221-23, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LN
Received 28 Sept 2022277 Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9QW
Received 28 Sept 2022Hillside, Ruckinge Road, Hamstreet, Ashford, Kent TN26 2NW
Received 28 Sept 202239-41, High Street, Ashford, TN24 8TG
Received 1 Sept 2022Silverthorn, Scotton Street, Wye, TN25 5BZ
Received 28 Sept 2022Ostlers Lodge, Tenterden Road, Rolvenden, Kent TN17 4JJ
Received 28 Sept 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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