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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
26,840 approved · 3,958 refused · 2,863 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Zig Zag, Wye Road, Hastingleigh, TN25 5HE
Received 17 Jan 202319, Turners Avenue, Tenterden, TN30 6QL
Received 18 Jan 202356-58 Waterloo House, High Street, Rolvenden, TN17 4LN
Received 18 Jan 20231, Sprotlands Avenue, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0AQ
Received 18 Jan 2023137, Mill Cottage, Canterbury Road, Kennington, TN24 9QB
Received 18 Jan 202325, Angus Drive, Kennington, TN24 9HW
Received 18 Jan 202381, Acorn Close, Kingsnorth, TN23 3HR
Received 19 Jan 20232A, North Street, Ashford, TN24 8JN
Received 19 Jan 2023Tenterden Sports And Leisure Centre, Recreation Ground Road, Tenterden, TN30 6RA
Received 19 Jan 2023St Marys Church, The Street, Westwell
Received 19 Jan 2023Parsonage House, The Street, Smarden, TN27 8QA
Received 16 Jan 2023Cart Lodge, Darling Buds Farm, Bethersden, TN26 3EQ
Received 13 Jan 2023Willow Green Cottage, Heath Road, Appledore, TN26 2AJ
Received 19 Jan 2023Hamstreet Woods National Nature Reserve rear of, Bournewood, Hamstreet
Received 16 Jan 2023Footpath outside McDonalds (46), High Street, Ashford, TN24 8TE
Received 19 Jan 2023Footpath outside Kaspa's (1-3), High Street, Ashford TN24 8TH
Received 19 Jan 20237 Scotton Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BU
Received 19 Jan 2023Hales Place, Woodchurch Road, High Halden, TN26 3JQ
Received 20 Jan 2023Ashenden Farm, Bell Lane, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent TN27 8LD
Received 20 Jan 20238 Lovelace Court, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3AY
Received 20 Jan 202311, Lucilla Avenue, Kingsnorth, TN23 3PU
Received 20 Jan 2023Nortons, The Street, Smarden, TN27 8NB
Received 20 Jan 2023Land at Chilmington Green, Ashford Road, Great Chart, Kent
Received 20 Jan 202365, Oak Tree Road, Ashford, TN23 4QP
Received 23 Jan 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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