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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
26,960 approved · 3,975 refused · 2,876 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Oct 2001 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Ashford Fire Station, Henwood, Ashford, TN24 8DH
Received 25 Jan 20237, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4NS
Received 25 Jan 2023Winters Farm, Old Surrenden Manor Road, Bethersden, TN26 3DQ
Received 26 Jan 2023Tomtebo, Nickley Wood Road, Shadoxhurst, TN26 1LZ
Received 26 Jan 2023Sevington Mill, Sevington Lane, Willesborough, TN24 0LB
Received 26 Jan 2023Wye Telephone Exchange, Upper Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5AN
Received 26 Jan 20235, Woodside, Kingsnorth, TN23 5LQ
Received 26 Jan 2023Land At Cheesemans Green, Land Parcels B4 And B5, Cheesemans Green Lane, Kingsnorth, TN25 7GZ
Received 26 Jan 2023Boughton Cottage, Mill Lane, Smarden, TN27 8NN
Received 26 Jan 202321, Chulkhurst, Biddenden, TN27 8ED
Received 27 Jan 2023Conscience Farm, Blind Lane, Mersham, Ashford, Kent TN25 7HA
Received 25 Jan 2023Cott Farm, Agricultural Building At, Cot Lane, Biddenden, TN27 8JP
Received 27 Jan 2023Forest Lodge, Malthouse Lane, Warehorne, TN26 2EL
Received 27 Jan 202315, Matfield Close, Stanhope, TN23 5FD
Received 27 Jan 20231, Frinsted Gardens, Stanhope, TN23 5TL
Received 27 Jan 20235, Frinsted Gardens, Stanhope, TN23 5TL
Received 27 Jan 202340, Frinsted Gardens, Stanhope, TN23 5TL
Received 27 Jan 20236, Skylark Way, Ashford, TN23 3QH
Received 27 Jan 202312, Hever Gardens, Stanhope, TN23 5GN
Received 27 Jan 20237, Matfield Close, Stanhope, Ashford, Kent TN23 5FD
Received 27 Jan 202311, Matfield Close, Stanhope, TN23 5FD
Received 27 Jan 202323, Monkton Close, Stanhope, Ashford, Kent TN23 5ET
Received 27 Jan 202320 Monkton Close, Stanhope, Ashford, Kent TN23 5ET
Received 27 Jan 2023Sidelands Farm, Little Olantigh Road, Wye, TN25 5DQ
Received 30 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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