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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
25,834 approved · 3,777 refused · 2,800 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2003 to 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cott Farm, Agricultural Building At, Cot Lane, Biddenden, TN27 8JP
Received 19 Oct 2022Quilletts Oast, Court Lodge Road, Appledore, TN26 2DD
Received 19 Oct 202272, Meadowbrook Road, Kennington, TN24 9AZ
Received 19 Oct 2022Moat Cottage, The Street, Smarden, TN27 8NA
Received 20 Oct 2022125, Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5ED
Received 20 Oct 202214-16, The Street, Great Chart, TN23 3AH
Received 20 Oct 202227, Crofton Close, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN24 9BU
Received 20 Oct 2022Maid Morton, Barn At, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6ST
Received 20 Oct 2022Hoseney House, Sandy Lane, Tenterden, TN30 7DA
Received 21 Oct 2022Land to the south east of The Street Hothfield
Received 21 Oct 2022Meadow Cottage, Church Lane, Shadoxhurst, TN26 1LY
Received 21 Oct 2022Manor House, Faversham Road, Boughton Aluph, TN25 4HT
Received 21 Oct 2022Oxney Isle Barn, Swan Street, Wittersham, TN30 7PL
Received 21 Oct 2022Rother Valley Farm, Lossenham Lane, Newenden, Ashford, Kent TN18 5QQ
Received 21 Oct 202213, Christopher Bushell Way, Kennington, TN24 9PY
Received 21 Oct 2022Lacton Farm House, 97 The Street, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0NA
Received 17 Oct 2022Land East of Railway and North of John Lewis at Home, Fougeres Way, Ashford, TN23 3HB
Received 21 Oct 2022Elmstone House, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AE
Received 21 Oct 202249 Sussex Avenue, Ashford, Kent TN24 8ND
Received 24 Oct 2022Bean Place, Ashford Road, Bethersden, TN26 3AZ
Received 24 Oct 2022Former Powergen site, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 24 Oct 2022Hedgerows, Silver Hill Gardens, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0PA
Received 24 Oct 2022Lamberden Farm, Rye Road, Newenden, TN18 5PJ
Received 24 Oct 202214-16, The Street, Great Chart, TN23 3AH
Received 20 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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