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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25,565 approved · 3,727 refused · 2,786 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Old Barrack Farm, Reading Street, Tenterden, TN30 7HT
Received 23 Sept 2022Four Winds, New Road, Egerton, TN27 9DT
Received 28 Sept 2022Rushbrooke Farm, Pluckley,, Ashford, TN27 0SA
Received 28 Sept 202278 Sir John Killick Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 3TF
Received 29 Sept 2022The Singleton Barn Public House, Tithe Barn Lane, Singleton, TN23 4TY
Received 29 Sept 2022Site B adjacent Wyvern Way, Henwood, Ashford
Received 29 Sept 202221-23, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LN
Received 29 Sept 2022A20/A252 Charing Roundabout
Received 29 Sept 2022Barn West of Smarden Bell Road, Smarden Bell Road, Smarden, TN27 8PA
Received 29 Sept 202218, The Street, Great Chart, TN23 3AH
Received 29 Sept 2022Birchwood Farmhouse, Cranbrook Road, Biddenden, TN27 8DY
Received 5 Sept 20222, Surrenden House, George Grove, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3BT
Received 29 Sept 202212, The Street, Hothfield, TN26 1EJ
Received 30 Sept 2022Land to the west of By the Way, Aldington, TN25 7DB
Received 30 Sept 202272, Grasmere Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9BG
Received 30 Sept 2022Chart Court Farm, Chart Court Liveries, Pluckley Road, Little Chart, TN27 0QH
Received 30 Sept 2022Strawberry Hill, Knoll Hill, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7BZ
Received 19 Aug 20222 Eastgate Road, Tenterden, TN30 7AH
Received 16 Sept 202271, Wakeley House, High Street, Charing, TN27 0LS
Received 30 Sept 2022Checksfield Farm, Preston Hill Lane, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 7DN
Received 3 Oct 2022Liquid And Life Nightclub, East Hill, Ashford, TN24 8PA
Received 7 Sept 202221 Grantley Close, Ashford, TN23 7UE
Received 3 Oct 202213, Henley Fields, Tenterden, TN30 6EL
Received 3 Oct 202278 Guernsey Way, Kennington, TN24 9LW
Received 3 Oct 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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