Understanding planning · 13 min read
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25,834 approved · 3,777 refused · 2,800 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Sunnyside Down & Peony House, Warehorne Road, Hamstreet, TN26 2JR
Received 24 Oct 20224 Olivia Cottage, Ashford Road, Warehorne, TN26 2QW
Received 24 Oct 2022Morghew Park Estate, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden , TN30 7LR
Received 24 Oct 2022Morghew Park Estate , Smallhythe Rd,, Tenterden, TN30 7LR
Received 24 Oct 2022Eleven Acre Shaw, Redbrook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3QR
Received 24 Oct 2022Cullens Farm Buildings,, Maytham Road, Wittersham, TN30 7PU
Received 24 Oct 2022Iraden, Hareplain Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent TN27 8LH
Received 25 Oct 2022Elm Lodge, Tenterden Road, Appledore, TN26 2AL
Received 25 Oct 202227 Glebelands, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent TN27 8EA
Received 14 Oct 2022The Wilderness, Hastings Road, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 4LS
Received 25 Oct 2022Land At Newtown Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, TN24 0PN
Received 25 Oct 20225, Hillcrest Close, Kennington, TN24 9QT
Received 25 Oct 2022Lotland Farm, Biddenden Road, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 6TD
Received 25 Oct 2022The White Horse, The Square, Chilham, CT4 8BY
Received 25 Oct 2022Land north of Warehorne Road, Hamstreet
Received 25 Oct 2022Site C Ashford Orbital, Monument Way, Sevington, TN24 0HB
Received 25 Oct 2022Coomb Farm, Shabani Oast, Pilgrims Way, Brabourne Downs, Brabourne, Ashford, Kent TN25 5LY
Received 26 Oct 20222, North Street, Ashford, TN24 8JN
Received 26 Oct 20223 The Lilybuds, Canterbury Road, Challock, TN25 4DH
Received 26 Oct 2022The White Horse, The Square, Chilham, CT4 8BY
Received 26 Oct 202235, Juniper Close, Ashford, TN23 3JY
Received 26 Oct 2022Eleven Acre Shaw, Redbrook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3QR
Received 26 Oct 20223 Coombe Grove, Ram Lane, Little Chart, TN25 4LS
Received 27 Oct 2022Willowbed Farm, Long Length, Kingsnorth, TN23 3JG
Received 27 Oct 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage