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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
27,819 approved · 4,093 refused · 2,925 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Forstal Cottage, Ram Lane, Little Chart, TN27 0PU
Received 20 Apr 202344, Station Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent TN27 0JA
Received 20 Apr 202344, Station Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent TN27 0JA
Received 20 Apr 2023Land at Cheesemans Green, Cheesemans Green Lane
Received 20 Apr 20231 Green Lane, Elm Tree Cottage, Shottenden Lane, Molash, Kent CT4 8HT
Received 20 Apr 2023The Barn At, Box Farm, Bedlam Lane, Egerton, Ashford, Kent TN27 9BY
Received 20 Apr 202310, Dering Road, Ashford, TN24 8DB
Received 20 Apr 202322-26 Front Road, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3QE
Received 17 Apr 2023Agricultural Buildings and yard north west of Great Chilmington Farmhouse, Chilmington Green Lane, Chilmington Green
Received 20 Apr 202348, Hunter Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent TN24 0RT
Received 21 Apr 2023Otium Lake, 5 The Gatehouse, Station Road, Pluckley, Ashford, Kent TN27 0DQ
Received 21 Apr 2023Mayflower Cottage, Ball Lane, Kennington, TN25 4EB
Received 21 Apr 2023Brook House, The Street, Brook, Ashford, Kent TN25 5PF
Received 21 Apr 2023Stemps Land, Ebony Road, Stone, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 7JG
Received 20 Apr 202378, The Street, Willesborough, TN24 0NA
Received 21 Apr 20232, Linden House, The Nightingales, Biddenden, TN27 8HN
Received 24 Apr 2023Rook Toll, Faversham Road, Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent TN25 4HS
Received 24 Apr 2023Fairlight, Cranbrook Road, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent, TN30 6UW
Received 24 Apr 202320, Balinger, Eastgate Road, Tenterden, TN30 7AH
Received 24 Apr 202319, Lancaster Close, Hamstreet, TN26 2JG
Received 24 Apr 2023The Wheel Inn, Accommodation, The Street, Westwell, TN25 4LQ
Received 24 Apr 202359, Jemmett Road, Ashford, TN23 4QD
Received 24 Apr 2023127 Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5DP
Received 24 Apr 2023Ravensbourne, Nickley Wood Road, Shadoxhurst, Ashford, Kent TN26 1LZ
Received 24 Apr 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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