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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
26,285 approved · 3,872 refused · 2,824 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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9, The Bothy, Church Hill, Chilham, CT4 8DA
Received 1 Nov 20236 Tabret Close, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9NE
Received 1 Nov 2023Bois Barn, Mundy Bois Road, Egerton, TN27 9ER
Received 1 Nov 2023Mill House, Stocks Road, Wittersham, TN30 7EJ
Received 31 Oct 2023Redundant Farm building east of 1 Buckwell Cottage, CanterburyRoad, Kent
Received 2 Nov 2023Lower Thorne Farm, Smarden Road, Pluckley, TN27 0RF
Received 2 Nov 2023Brook House, The Street, Brook, TN25 5PF
Received 2 Nov 2023373 Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0QF
Received 2 Nov 2023The Fish Inn, Brookfield Road, Ashford, TN23 4EZ
Received 2 Nov 2023Land between, 82-120 Front Road, Woodchurch
Received 2 Nov 20231 Hurst Hill Farm Cottage, Pluckley Road, Hothfield, Ashford, Kent TN26 1ER
Received 3 Nov 2023Ashford Road, High Halden
Received 3 Nov 2023Land West of Harbourne Bungalow, Ashford Road, High Halden
Received 3 Nov 2023Land South East of 1 Summer Cottages, Ashford Road, High Halden
Received 3 Nov 2023Proposed Waste Water laying North East of Little Harbourne Farm and 100m North West of, Harbourne Lane
Received 3 Nov 202367 Aylesbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN25 4QH
Received 2 Nov 202334, The Moat, The Moat, Charing, TN27 0JJ
Received 3 Nov 2023Little Acorns, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, TN30 6SR
Received 3 Nov 2023Agricultural Buildings and yard north west of Great Chilmington Farmhouse, Chilmington Green Lane, Chilmington Green
Received 3 Nov 2023The Pippins, Warehorne Road, Hamstreet
Received 3 Nov 2023Land south-east of Bridge Close, Appledore Road, Woodchurch
Received 3 Nov 2023Tesco Stores Ltd, Moat Field Meadow, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN23 3LU
Received 3 Nov 2023Wembdon Farm, Unit 4, Bower Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SZ and Evegate Business Park, Station Road, Smeeth TN25 6SX
Received 3 Nov 2023116, Running Foxes Lane, Singleton, TN23 5LR
Received 24 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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