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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
29,827 approved · 4,450 refused · 3,057 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Summer Hill, Mill Lane, Aldington, TN25 7AL
Received 5 Dec 2023Land 100m East of, Homestall Farm, Ashford Road, High Halden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3BS
Received 5 Dec 202382 Bybrook Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN24 9JF
Received 5 Dec 202311, Scotton Street, Wye, TN25 5BU
Received 5 Dec 2023Cherry Rose, Bower Road, Mersham, TN25 6NN
Received 5 Dec 2023Egerden Farm, Martens Lane, High Halden, TN26 3JP
Received 5 Dec 2023Land rear of Paddock View, Faversham Road, Challock
Received 5 Dec 2023Ripley’s Scrap and Recycling Yard together with land to the west, Brisley Lane, Near Ashford, TN25 7JE
Received 5 Dec 20237, Lime Grove, Ashford, TN24 8AE
Received 5 Dec 202350, Cherrywood Rise, Ashford, TN25 4QA
Received 6 Dec 2023Wallington House, Pluckley Road, Smarden, TN27 8NN
Received 6 Dec 2023Bull Lane Farm, Bull Lane, Bethersden, TN26 3HA
Received 6 Dec 2023Maple Place, Appledore
Received 4 Dec 2023Upper Bilham House, Cheesemans Green Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford, TN25 7HY
Received 4 Dec 2023Beynon Cottage, The Street, Brook, TN25 5PG
Received 6 Dec 20233-5 Black And White Cottage, Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4NS
Received 6 Dec 2023The Beeches, Blackwall Road, Wittersham, TN30 7EG
Received 6 Dec 2023Coopers Cottage, Forge Hill, Pluckley, TN27 0SJ
Received 6 Dec 20232 Moat House, The Moat, Charing, TN27 0JJ
Received 7 Dec 2023St Marys Church, The Street, Westwell, TN25 4JX
Received 7 Dec 2023Recreation Ground Junction Of Westwell Lane And, Gold Hill, Westwell, Ashford, Kent TN25 4LD
Received 7 Dec 2023Gorseside Farm, Daniels Water, Great Chart, Ashford, Kent TN26 1JU
Received 7 Dec 20234 Canal View, The Street, Appledore, TN26 2BQ
Received 8 Dec 202380, The Street, Willesborough, TN24 0NA
Received 8 Dec 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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