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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28,544 approved · 4,220 refused · 2,971 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, TN25 4AH
Received 5 Jul 2023John Lewis At Home, Fougeres Way, Ashford, TN25 4DT
Received 5 Jul 202329 Hillbrow Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 4QH
Received 6 Jul 2023Stokys Gate, The Street, Hastingleigh, TN25 5HH
Received 6 Jul 2023Land north west of Podkin Farm House, High Halden Road, Biddenden
Received 6 Jul 20232 Hillyfield Road, Ashford, TN23 4QL
Received 6 Jul 2023The Yard, Burnthouse Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PT
Received 6 Jul 2023Cullens Cottage, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN30 7PU
Received 3 Jul 2023Little Surrenden Farmhouse, Ashford Road, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3BG
Received 3 Jul 202311 Repton Avenue, Ashford, Kent TN23 3RX
Received 6 Jul 2023Abbottsfield, Lees Road, Brabourne, TN25 6RN
Received 6 Jul 2023Capel Barn, Capel Road, Hamstreet, Ashford, Kent TN26 2EH
Received 7 Jul 2023Burnt Oak House, Canterbury Road, Challock, TN25 4DP
Received 7 Jul 2023Hatfield House, The Street, Chilham, Canterbury, CT4 8DP
Received 6 Jul 2023Barns to southeast of Fosten Lane (known as The Pig Sty), Fosten Lane, Biddenden, TN27 8BH
Received 7 Jul 2023John Mayne Church Of England Primary School, High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AL
Received 7 Jul 2023John Mayne Church Of England Primary School, High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AL
Received 7 Jul 2023Homewood School And Sixth Form Centre, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LT
Received 7 Jul 2023Homewood School And Sixth Form Centre, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LT
Received 7 Jul 2023Belgar Farmhouse, Appledore Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DB
Received 7 Jul 202324 Turners Avenue, Tenterden, TN30 6QL
Received 10 Jul 202316 Lloyds Green, Wittersham, TN30 7NX
Received 10 Jul 2023Ashford Rugby Club, Canterbury Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9QB
Received 10 Jul 2023Chilmington Green Development - Phase 2 Infrastructure, Chilmington Green Road, Great Chart, Ashford
Received 10 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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