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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
29,589 approved · 4,410 refused · 3,044 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 May 2001 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Glenwood, Pluckley Road, Maltmans Hill, Smarden, TN27 8RF
Received 10 Nov 2023Land to the north of St Marys Close and East of Ashford Road, Hamstreet, Ashford
Received 10 Nov 20239, The Bothy, Church Hill, Chilham, CT4 8DA
Received 9 Nov 202336 High Street, Charing, Ashford, Kent TN27 0HX
Received 8 Nov 2023Dragon House, Ashford Road, High Halden, TN26 3LY
Received 10 Nov 2023The Old Farm House, Appledore Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DF
Received 8 Nov 2023Orange Farm, Moor Lane, Woodchurch, TN26 3SX
Received 10 Nov 202315, Queen Street, Ashford, TN23 1RF
Received 10 Nov 2023Land Between Primrose Cottage & 1 Buffalo Cottages, Bethersden Road, Smarden , Ashford, TN27 8QX
Received 10 Nov 2023Langley Lodge, Daniels Water, Great Chart, Ashford Kent TN26 1JU
Received 10 Nov 20232 Shoreham Lane, Tenterden, TN30 6EG
Received 10 Nov 2023Leeside, Church Lane, Challock, TN25 4DE
Received 13 Nov 202318 Woolreeds Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 5AL
Received 13 Nov 2023Odden Farm, Appledore Road, Woodchurch, TN26 3TQ
Received 13 Nov 202341 Western Avenue, Ashford, Kent, TN23 1LY
Received 13 Nov 202321, Northumberland Avenue, Kennington, TN24 9QF
Received 13 Nov 2023Little Court Lodge Farm, Magpie Hall Road, Kingsnorth, TN26 1HH
Received 13 Nov 20237, The Old House, Station Road, Charing, TN27 0JA
Received 13 Nov 2023110, Beaver Lane, Ashford, TN23 5NX
Received 13 Nov 2023Longs Corner Farm, Smarden Road, Bethersden, TN26 3HD
Received 14 Nov 20231, Stonegate, Wye, TN25 5DD
Received 14 Nov 2023Ham Street Woods National Nature Reserve, Bourne Lane, Hamstreet, Ashford, Kent TN26 2HH
Received 14 Nov 202339, Zealds House, Church Street, Wye, TN25 5BL
Received 14 Nov 202340, The Street, Appledore, TN26 2BX
Received 14 Nov 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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