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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
28,688 approved · 4,251 refused · 2,986 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Leigh Green Fruit Farm, Appledore Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DH
Received 26 Jul 20239 West Cross, Tenterden, TN30 6JR
Received 20 Jul 2023Land between railway line and Willesborough Road, Kennington, Ashford
Received 26 Jul 2023Rolvenden Cricket Ground, Regent Street, Rolvenden, Cranbrook
Received 26 Jul 2023Land Rear Of Rose Cottage Farm, North Street, Biddenden, TN27 8FQ
Received 26 Jul 202337 Chequers Park, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5BB
Received 27 Jul 202333, Pierce House, High Street, Charing, TN27 0HU
Received 27 Jul 2023The Rectory, The Street, Wittersham, TN30 7EA
Received 27 Jul 2023The Vicarage, Old Way, Appledore, TN26 2DB
Received 27 Jul 2023Moat Farm House, Oak Grove Lane, High Halden, TN26 3BX
Received 27 Jul 2023Manor View, Lees Road, Brabourne, TN25 5LE
Received 27 Jul 202322, Westwell Court, Tenterden, TN30 6TS
Received 27 Jul 2023Knightingales, Builders Yard At, Wittersham Road, Stone, Ashford, Kent TN30 7HA
Received 27 Jul 2023Grove Business Park, Henwood, Ashford, TN24 8AB
Received 27 Jul 2023Fallow Acre, Smarden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8JT
Received 27 Jul 2023Wainwrights, The Pavement, Tenterden, TN30 6DP
Received 27 Jul 2023Henwood Car Park, Henwood, Ashford, TN24 8DH
Received 27 Jul 20235, Magpie Farm, Appledore, TN26 2BF
Received 27 Jul 2023South Hill Farm, Tamley Lane, Hastingleigh, Ashford, Kent TN25 5HL
Received 27 Jul 202312, Farmers Way, Kingsnorth, TN23 3FY
Received 28 Jul 202315 Forge Meads, Wittersham, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent, TN30 7PE
Received 20 Jul 2023Brook House, Stonebridge Green Road, Egerton, TN27 9AP
Received 28 Jul 2023The Oast House, Lacton Oast, Willesborough, TN24 0JF
Received 28 Jul 2023Boundary Farm, Cranbrook Road, Tenterden, TN30 6UR
Received 28 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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