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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
28,544 approved · 4,220 refused · 2,971 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 May 2001 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lower Thorne Farm, Smarden Road, Pluckley, TN27 0RF
Received 10 Jul 2023Rose Cottage, New Road, Egerton, TN27 9DT
Received 10 Jul 2023Box Cottage, The Street, Bethersden, TN26 3AD
Received 10 Jul 202315, Grange Crescent, Tenterden, TN30 6DY
Received 10 Jul 2023187, Faversham Road, Kennington, TN24 9AE
Received 10 Jul 2023Land north of, Taylors Hill, Chilham
Received 4 Jul 2023The Woodyard, Pound Lane, Molash, CT4 8HG
Received 10 Jul 2023Ramsden Barn, Standard Lane, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3JR
Received 10 Jul 2023Pickenden, Stumble Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent TN23 3EY
Received 10 Jul 2023Westcroft, South Stour Avenue, Ashford, TN23 7RS
Received 11 Jul 2023Buckhall, Bull Lane, Bethersden, TN26 3HB
Received 11 Jul 2023Starvenden, Station Road, Pluckley, TN27 0QX
Received 11 Jul 20238, Romsey Close, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0QX
Received 12 Jul 2023Victoria Park, Jemmett Road, Ashford , TN23 4QA
Received 12 Jul 2023St James' Church, The Street, Egerton, TN27 9AJ
Received 12 Jul 20237, Grange Road, Tenterden, TN30 6DL
Received 12 Jul 2023Homewood School And Sixth Form Centre, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LT
Received 7 Jul 2023Church Elms Farm, Redbrook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3QR
Received 13 Jul 2023Windsor Court, Hoxton Close, Singleton, TN23 5LS
Received 13 Jul 2023Orchard Lodge, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8BB
Received 13 Jul 20235 Evegate Park Grange, Station Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SX
Received 13 Jul 2023The Yard, Burnthouse Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PT
Received 13 Jul 202310, Hookstead, High Halden, TN26 3NF
Received 13 Jul 2023Knockwood House, Ingleden Park Road, Tenterden, TN30 6NS
Received 13 Jul 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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