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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
27,284 approved · 4,015 refused · 2,897 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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61, Venture House, High Street, Charing, TN27 0LS
Received 27 Feb 2023Rowan House, Wye Road, Boughton Aluph, TN25 4EP
Received 27 Feb 20237, Collingbourne, Kingsnorth, TN23 5UE
Received 27 Feb 2023Unit 8, Rutherford Road, Eureka Leisure Park, Ashford, TN25 4BN
Received 27 Feb 202320 Housefield, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0AF
Received 21 Feb 2023Wetlands West of Sewage Works at junction of Branch Road and, Ashford Road, Chilham
Received 27 Feb 2023Home Plus, Beaver Road, Ashford, TN23 7RR
Received 27 Feb 2023Ashford Golf Complex, Bears Lane, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3BZ
Received 27 Feb 2023Land south of Captains Wood, Land at Cheesemans Green, Cheesemans Green Lane, Kingsnorth, Kent
Received 27 Feb 2023Land Adjacent to The Knoll, Lees Road , East Brabourne, TN25 5LE
Received 27 Feb 202363, Magazine Road, Ashford, TN24 8NR
Received 28 Feb 2023Sicklefield House, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, TN30 6SP
Received 28 Feb 2023Land adjacent Four Winds, New Road, Egerton , Egerton, TN27 9DJ
Received 28 Feb 2023Finchwood Aesthetics and Beauty, Finchwood Grange TN25 7AY
Received 1 Mar 2023Park Cottage Polla House, Church Lane, Hothfield, TN26 1EL
Received 1 Mar 202327, Chaffinch Drive, Kingsnorth, TN23 3QD
Received 1 Mar 2023Noyna, Manor Pound Lane, Brabourne, TN25 5NA
Received 1 Mar 2023Warehorne Oast, Warehorne Road, Warehorne, TN26 2JT
Received 1 Mar 2023Apartment 1, Great Maytham Hall, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4NE
Received 1 Mar 2023Hayes Farm, Ebony Road, Stone, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 7JB
Received 28 Feb 2023Hazel Bank, Bromley Green Road, Ruckinge, TN26 2EQ
Received 1 Mar 202311, Mountbatten Way, Brabourne, TN25 6PZ
Received 2 Mar 2023Monaghan Cottage, The Street, Brook, Ashford, Kent TN25 5PG
Received 1 Mar 2023Land At Newtown Works, Newtown Road, Ashford, TN24 0PN
Received 2 Mar 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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