Understanding planning · 13 min read
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29,827 approved · 4,450 refused · 3,057 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
15 Holmwood Road, Ashford, TN23 5DJ
Received 2 Nov 2023Proposed Barn Conversion 25m South of Hornes Place Barn, Kenardington Road, Appledore
Received 8 Dec 2023Proposed Barn Conversion 25m South of Hornes Place Barn, Kenardington Road, Appledore
Received 8 Dec 2023Grosvenor Hall, Cemetery Lane, Ashford, TN25 4AJ
Received 8 Dec 20235 Moat House, The Moat, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0JJ
Received 6 Dec 20233 Canal View, The Street, Appledore, Ashford, Kent TN26 2BQ
Received 8 Dec 2023Salterton, Church Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN24 9DQ
Received 8 Dec 2023The Old Parsonage, 24 Hastings Road, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, TN17 4LS
Received 8 Dec 2023Wissenden Lodge Farm, Holiday Lets At, Wissenden Lane, Bethersden, TN26 3EJ
Received 8 Dec 20239 Muscovy Road, Kennington, TN25 4QN
Received 8 Dec 2023Former Wye College Buildings, High Street, Wye, TN25 4AH
Received 8 Dec 2023Wye College, Olantigh Road, Wye, TN25 5AH
Received 8 Dec 2023Peening Quarter Farm, Peening Quarter Road, Wittersham, TN30 7NP
Received 11 Dec 202381, Kennington Road, Willesborough, TN24 0NT
Received 11 Dec 202354 The Street, Appledore, Ashford, Kent TN26 2AE
Received 11 Dec 20238, Collie Drive, Kingsnorth, TN23 3GR
Received 11 Dec 2023Eastwell Manor Hotel, Faversham Road, Boughton Aluph, TN25 4HR
Received 11 Dec 2023Cavendish House, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, TN30 6PU
Received 11 Dec 202319, Upper Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5AW
Received 11 Dec 2023Depot, 2 Hilton Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 1EW
Received 11 Dec 20232D, Bank Street, Ashford, TN23 1BX
Received 11 Dec 2023Pickers Cottage, Soles Hill Farm, Soleshill Road, Chilham, CT4 8JZ
Received 11 Dec 2023Millers Ley, Ulley Road, Kennington, TN24 9HY
Received 12 Dec 2023The Coach House, Heronden Hall, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7QA
Received 12 Dec 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage