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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
27,208 approved · 4,002 refused · 2,893 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Tearnden Oast, Smarden Road, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3HE
Received 21 Feb 2023Anchor Barn, Peening Quarter Road, Wittersham, TN30 7NP
Received 21 Feb 2023Langley Farm, Barn At, Bethersden Road, Smarden, TN26 3HF
Received 15 Feb 202319 Cecil Court, Wall Road, Ashford, TN24 8NW
Received 21 Feb 2023Land at Orchard Farm, Canterbury Road, Kennington
Received 21 Feb 2023A28, Singleton, Great Chart with Singleton, KENT, TN23 5HY
Received 21 Feb 2023Farm Cottage, Cripple Hill, High Halden, TN26 3HZ
Received 21 Feb 2023Bourne House, Brook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3SZ
Received 21 Feb 2023Bay Tree House, Canterbury Road, Godmersham, TN25 4HF
Received 22 Feb 2023Appledore Methodist Church, The Street, Appledore, Ashford, Kent TN26 2AE
Received 22 Feb 2023Manuels, The Street, Brook, Ashford, Kent TN25 5PF
Received 22 Feb 2023Four Winds, New Road, Egerton, TN27 9DT
Received 22 Feb 2023Brook Meadow, Wissenden Lane, Bethersden, TN26 3AJ
Received 22 Feb 2023Caldecott House, Hythe Road, Smeeth, Ashford, Kent TN25 6SP
Received 22 Feb 2023Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, TN25 4AH
Received 22 Feb 202330, Waltham Place, Stanhope, Ashford, Kent TN23 5FH
Received 22 Feb 2023Burlington House, Canterbury Road, Challock, Ashford, Kent TN25 4BJ
Received 22 Feb 2023Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, TN25 4AH
Received 22 Feb 20234, Pondmore Way, Ashford, TN25 4LU
Received 23 Feb 2023Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, TN25 4AH
Received 23 Feb 202383, High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6LB
Received 17 Feb 2023Land to south of New Barn Farm, Ashford Road, High Halden, Kent, TN26 3BS
Received 23 Feb 202324 Essella Park, Essella Road, Ashford, TN24 8AQ
Received 23 Feb 2023Grass Verge at A2070 , A2070, Sevington, Ashford, TN24 0TP
Received 23 Feb 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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