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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
27,819 approved · 4,093 refused · 2,925 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Land north east of Beacon Farm Oast, Benenden Road
Received 25 Apr 2023Old Chestnut House, Church Lane, Aldington, TN25 7EG
Received 25 Apr 2023Orchard House, Catts Hill, Stone, TN30 7JR
Received 25 Apr 20237, North Street, Ashford, TN24 8LF
Received 25 Apr 2023124, Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5EA
Received 25 Apr 20233, Ruffets Wood, Kingsnorth, TN23 3QQ
Received 25 Apr 2023Bevenden Lodge, Ashford Road, Great Chart, TN26 1JL
Received 18 Apr 2023Kingsnorth Industrial Estate, Emmerich Berlon Ltd, Wotton Road, Ashford, TN23 6JY
Received 25 Apr 2023Ashenden, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7NA
Received 25 Apr 202315, Henden Place, The Green, Woodchurch, TN26 3PF
Received 19 Apr 2023Land at Cheesemans Green, Cheesemans Green Lane, Kingsnorth
Received 25 Apr 20238, Rothley Close, Tenterden, TN30 6LP
Received 25 Apr 20236 Causton House, The Nightingales, Biddenden, Ashford, Kent TN27 8HN
Received 25 Apr 2023116, Grasmere Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9BG
Received 26 Apr 20233, Holcombe House, Rolvenden Hill, Rolvenden, TN17 4JN
Received 25 Apr 202380, High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6JB
Received 26 Apr 202319, The Limes, Stanhope, TN23 3NX
Received 26 Apr 20237, Tudor Byway, Kennington, TN24 9DP
Received 26 Apr 2023Oakhurst, Woodchurch Road, Tenterden, TN30 7AE
Received 26 Apr 2023Wastewater Treatment Works site west of spur of, Reading Street, Tenterden, TN30 7HT
Received 14 Apr 202317, Quantock Drive, Ashford, TN24 8QZ
Received 26 Apr 2023Little Coombe, Little Coombe, Hastingleigh, TN25 5JB
Received 27 Apr 202315, Dexter Close, Kennington, TN25 4QG
Received 27 Apr 2023Kennington House, 9 The Street, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9EX
Received 25 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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