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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
25,642 approved · 3,745 refused · 2,794 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2003 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28-30 Scotton Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5BZ
Received 6 Oct 2022108, Beaver Lane, Ashford, TN23 5NX
Received 6 Oct 2022Wissenden Corner, Wissenden Lane, Bethersden, TN26 3EL
Received 6 Oct 2022Cork Farm, Annexe At, Long Hill, Old Wives Lees, Chilham, CT4 8BN
Received 26 Sept 202284 Linden Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8BP
Received 7 Oct 2022The Parsonage, Watery Lane, Westwell, TN25 4JH
Received 7 Oct 2022Brook Farm, Brook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3SR
Received 26 Sept 2022The Oast House, Pope Street, Godmersham, Canterbury, Kent CT4 7DL
Received 7 Oct 20223-4, The Street, Hothfield, TN26 1EJ
Received 7 Oct 2022The Old Bakery, Court Lodge Road, Appledore, Ashford, Kent TN26 2DD
Received 10 Oct 2022Fern Cottage, Mundy Bois Road, Egerton, Ashford, Kent TN27 9ER
Received 10 Oct 202237, Greyhound Chase, Singleton, TN23 5LL
Received 10 Oct 2022Sandyhurst House, Sandyhurst Lane, Boughton Aluph, TN25 4NX
Received 10 Oct 20224A, Chaucer Cottage, Upper Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5AF
Received 10 Oct 2022The Hollies, Ulley Road, Kennington, TN24 9HX
Received 10 Oct 20227, Lodge Wood Drive, Ashford, TN25 4GA
Received 10 Oct 20225 Turners Avenue, Tenterden, TN30 6QB
Received 7 Oct 202210 Kennington Place, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9HZ
Received 4 Oct 2022The Old Sawmill, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, Canterbury, CT4 8DB
Received 7 Oct 2022Setts Wood Farm, Appledore Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DG
Received 10 Oct 2022Wallfield Farm, Surrenden Road, Pluckley, TN27 0PP
Received 11 Oct 20226 Eastwell Meadows, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 6QR
Received 5 Oct 202271, Wakeley House, High Street, Charing, TN27 0LS
Received 30 Sept 2022North East Section of Longbeech Wood, Monkery Lane, Charing, Ashford, Kent
Received 10 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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