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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
29,354 approved · 4,368 refused · 3,027 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Silver Birches, Musgrove, Ashford, TN23 7UN
Received 28 Sept 2023The Minnis, The Street, Smarden
Received 25 Sept 202322 High Street, Biddenden, Kent, TN27 8AH
Received 28 Sept 2023Ebony Cottage, Reading Street, Tenterden, TN30 7HT
Received 25 Sept 2023Pluckley Brickworks, Station Road, Pluckley
Received 28 Sept 202314, Rolvenden Hill, Rolvenden, TN17 4JN
Received 29 Sept 20239, The Bothy, Church Hill, Chilham, CT4 8DA
Received 29 Sept 2023Recreation Ground, Recreation Ground Road, Tenterden, TN30 6RA
Received 29 Sept 202331 Cheesemans Green Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN25 7EX
Received 22 Sept 2023New Luckhurst Farm, Bethersden Road, Smarden, TN27 8QT
Received 29 Sept 2023125, Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5ED
Received 2 Oct 2023The Cricket Barn, Ashford Road, High Halden, TN26 3LY
Received 2 Oct 2023Hathewolden Grange, Ashford Road, High Halden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3LY
Received 2 Oct 202322, High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AH
Received 28 Sept 2023Ashford Business Park, Unit J, Foster Road, Ashford Business Park, Sevington, TN24 0SH
Received 2 Oct 2023Land at Park Farm South East, Finn Farm Road, Bridgefields, Ashford
Received 3 Oct 202319, Albert Road, Ashford, TN24 8NY
Received 3 Oct 2023Frogshole Farm, Sissinghurst Road, Biddenden, TN27 8EY
Received 3 Oct 20237, Lime Grove, Ashford, TN24 8AE
Received 3 Oct 2023159 Hythe Road, Ashford, TN24 8PN
Received 28 Sept 2023Land South of Homelands Stadium, East of Ashford Road, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN26 1NJ
Received 3 Oct 2023Land South of Homelands Stadium, East of Ashford Road, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN26 1NJ
Received 3 Oct 2023Ashford International Sports And Social Club, Beaver Road, Ashford, TN23 7SG
Received 3 Oct 2023Oakleigh Farm, High Halden Road, High Halden, TN26 3HX
Received 3 Oct 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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