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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
25,971 approved · 3,800 refused · 2,805 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Old Hop Gardens, Norton Lane, Bethersden, TN26 3AL
Received 3 Nov 2022Stocks Mill House, Stocks Road, Wittersham, TN30 7ER
Received 3 Nov 2022Land north east of Conningbrook Avenue and Conningbrook Lakes, Blackwall Road
Received 3 Nov 2022Unit 1, Montpelier Business Park to Units 5 & 6, Dencora Way, Ashford, TN23 4FG
Received 1 Nov 2022The Limes Community Garden, The Limes, Stanhope, TN23 3NY
Received 3 Nov 2022Colemans Kitchen Wood
Received 3 Nov 2022Planesfield, Pot Kiln Lane, High Halden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3HU
Received 31 Oct 2022Withersdane Green, Withersdane, Wye, TN25 5DL
Received 3 Nov 2022Ashstone Cottage, Hamstreet Road, Hamstreet, Ashford, Kent TN26 2EB
Received 2 Nov 20223, St Ambrose Green, Wye, TN25 5AG
Received 3 Nov 2022Withersdane Hall, Coldharbour Lane, Wye, TN25 5DA
Received 3 Nov 2022Plot 1 and 2, Site of Former Powergen Site, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 3 Nov 2022Stocks Mill House, Stocks Road, Wittersham, TN30 7ER
Received 3 Nov 2022Little Chilmington, Chilmington Green Road, Great Chart, TN23 3DN
Received 4 Nov 2022Land north Warehorne Road, Hamstreet, TN26 2JR
Received 4 Nov 2022105, Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5ED
Received 31 Oct 202229, Haffenden Road, Tenterden, TN30 6QE
Received 4 Nov 2022Conningbrook Lakes, Willesborough Road, Kennington, Ashford Kent TN24 9QX
Received 4 Nov 2022Oakhurst, Woodchurch Road, Tenterden, TN30 7AE
Received 14 Oct 2022Victoria Road , South Ashford , Ashford , TN23 7HE
Received 4 Nov 2022Bourne House, Brook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3SZ
Received 4 Nov 2022The Cottage Court Lodge Farm, Church Lane, Hamstreet, TN26 2EU
Received 4 Nov 2022Redundant Farm building east of 1 Buckwell Cottage, Canterbury Road, Boughton Aluph, Kent
Received 7 Nov 2022Former Powergen Site, Victoria Road, Ashford, TN23 7HQ
Received 7 Nov 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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