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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
26,126 approved · 3,837 refused · 2,817 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Kent Cottage, The Street, Great Chart, Ashford, Kent TN23 3AJ
Received 15 Nov 2022Barns to Southeast of Fosten Lane (known as The Pig Sty), Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8BH
Received 21 Nov 2022277 Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9QW
Received 3 Nov 2022Land to the west of Sellindge Substation, Sellindge, Ashford, Kent TN25 6AF
Received 21 Nov 2022Great Jobs Cross Oast House, Hastings Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4PL
Received 21 Nov 2022Smarden Primary School, Pluckley Road, Smarden, TN27 8ND
Received 22 Nov 2022Ramstile Farm, Cripple Hill, High Halden, TN26 3HZ
Received 22 Nov 2022Venture House, 61 High Street, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0LS
Received 14 Nov 2022Mill Cottage, Bethersden Road, Woodchurch, TN26 3QW
Received 22 Nov 2022Potkiln Oast, High Halden Road From Pb To Pb, High Halden, TN26 3HJ
Received 22 Nov 2022Wallfield Farm, Surrenden Road, Pluckley, TN27 0PP
Received 23 Nov 202231, Clarke Crescent, Kennington, TN24 9SA
Received 23 Nov 2022Ransley House, Kingsford Street, Mersham, Ashford, Kent TN25 6PF
Received 23 Nov 202226 Oaks Road, Tenterden, TN30 6RD
Received 23 Nov 2022Planesfield, Pot Kiln Lane, High Halden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3HU
Received 22 Nov 2022East Warden, Harbourne Lane, High Halden, TN26 3JF
Received 23 Nov 2022Deepwell House, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, CT4 8DB
Received 23 Nov 2022Rose Cottage, The Street, Bethersden, TN26 3AD
Received 23 Nov 2022Duxbury, Church Hill, High Halden, TN26 3JB
Received 15 Nov 2022Park Field, New Road Hill, Bonnington, TN25 7BA
Received 23 Nov 20228 Kiln Road, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7BD
Received 16 Oct 2023Embassy House, High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6BN
Received 19 Oct 2023Homewood School And Sixth Form Centre, Ashford Road, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 6LT
Received 19 Oct 2023Bargate Farm, Cranbrook Road, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent TN27 8DY
Received 18 Oct 2023Records 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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