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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
26,044 approved · 3,815 refused · 2,808 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Grantley Close, Ashford, Kent TN23 7UE
Received 7 Nov 2022The Kennels , Coldharbour Lane , Kent , Wye, TN25 5DB
Received 14 Nov 20221 Three Fields Road, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 7AQ
Received 8 Nov 202238, Upper Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5AN
Received 14 Nov 20223, The Street, Appledore, TN26 2BU
Received 14 Nov 2022Keepers, Calehill Road, Little Chart, TN27 0QF
Received 14 Nov 2022Place Barn Farm, The Green, Woodchurch, TN26 3PF
Received 14 Nov 2022Footpath outside CeX (88-90), High Street, Ashford, TN24 8SE
Received 14 Nov 2022Footpath outside Matches (3), Elwick Road, Ashford, TN23 1AX
Received 14 Nov 202223, High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6BJ
Received 14 Nov 2022Barnhurst Farm Barn, Pluckley Road, Bethersden, TN26 3DD
Received 14 Nov 2022Land North Of Baileys Place, Heath Road, Appledore, TN26 2AJ
Received 15 Nov 2022Sidelands Farm, Little Olantigh Road, Wye, TN25 5DQ
Received 15 Nov 20229, Wells Close, Tenterden, TN30 6QJ
Received 15 Nov 2022Methodist Church, Selling Road, Chilham, CT4 8BH
Received 15 Nov 2022Duxbury, Church Hill, High Halden, TN26 3JB
Received 15 Nov 2022Plot 1 and 2, Site of Former Powergen Site, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent
Received 15 Nov 2022Land adjacent to Creed Farm, Charing Hill
Received 15 Nov 2022Broombourne Farm, High Halden Road From Pb To Pb, High Halden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3HL
Received 9 Nov 2022Footpath outside CeX (88-90), High Street, Ashford, Kent TN24 8SE
Received 15 Nov 2022Footpath outside McDonalds (46), High Street, Ashford, TN24 8TE
Received 15 Nov 2022Footpath outside Kaspa's (1-3), High Street, Ashford, TN24 8TH
Received 15 Nov 2022Footpath outside Matches (3), Elwick Road, Ashford, TN23 1AX
Received 15 Nov 202257 Lakemead, Singleton, TN23 4XY
Received 15 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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