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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
29,241 approved · 4,357 refused · 3,017 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye , TN25 4AH
Received 15 Sept 2023Wexford Cottage, The Street, Brook, TN25 5PG
Received 15 Sept 2023Tesco Stores Ltd, Hythe Road, East Of Junction Ten Roundabout, Willesborough, TN24 0YE
Received 15 Sept 202332, North Street, Ashford, TN24 8JR
Received 18 Sept 202340, Flaxpond Road, Ashford, TN23 5PP
Received 18 Sept 2023Cerium Technology Park, Cerium Group Ltd Cerium House, Appledore Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DE
Received 18 Sept 20236, Lloyds Bank Plc, High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6AP
Received 18 Sept 2023The Tickled Trout, Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5EB
Received 18 Sept 2023The Crown Inn, The Street, Stone, TN30 7JN
Received 18 Sept 2023Smarden Community Store and Post Office, Chessenden Lane, Smarden, Ashford, TN27 8NF
Received 18 Sept 202378, Beacon Oak House, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LR
Received 18 Sept 2023Ivy End Farm, Pluckley Road, Smarden, TN27 8RH
Received 18 Sept 2023Stokys Gate, The Street, Hastingleigh, TN25 5HH
Received 18 Sept 202366, Bond Road, Ashford, TN23 7UJ
Received 18 Sept 2023Canal Farm Bungalow, Hamstreet Road, Ruckinge, TN26 2NT
Received 19 Sept 2023Fayre Acre, Church Hill, Charing, TN27 0BU
Received 12 Sept 2023Tenterden Station Estate, Unit 2, Station Road, Tenterden, Ashford, Kent TN30 6HE
Received 19 Sept 20231 Station Cottage, The Grove, Pluckley, TN27 0RT
Received 19 Sept 202353, Longbridge, Willesborough, TN24 0TA
Received 19 Sept 2023Land Adjoining Appledore Surgery, Land Adjoining Appledore Surgery, The Street, Appledore, TN26 2AE
Received 19 Sept 2023Led by the Wild, White's Wood Farm, Giggers Green Road, Aldington, TN25 7BY
Received 20 Sept 20237 Barn Platt, Ashford, TN23 7UQ
Received 20 Sept 2023The Ferry Inn, Appledore Road, Stone, TN30 7JY
Received 20 Sept 202315, Vineys Gardens, Tenterden, TN30 7AZ
Received 20 Sept 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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