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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.
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Ashford planning applications
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
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates59,424Searchable applications
568Recorded as pending
87%Approval rate · 38,469 approved or refused records
4,974Refused applications
33,495 approved · 4,974 refused · 3,269 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jul 1999 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Planning and DevelopmentContact planning Planning ContactsLocal plan Emerging Local Plan and Design CodePre-application advice Pre-Application AdviceArticle 4 directions Article 4 Directions
Council contacts
- Planning enquiriesplanning.policy@ashford.gov.ukCouncil source
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
Conservation areas44 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areas75 mapped area records0 identified HMO area records; remaining records unclassified
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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.
More application records
- Decision MadePA/2024/1450
Listed Building Consent for the insertion of new ground floor window, relocate existing roof light and replace with conservation roof light. Insertion and removal of internal walls to ground and first floor, blocking up of doorway. EV charging point to front elevation.
The Granary, Bridge Street, Wye, TN25 5ED
Received 2 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeOTH/2024/1451
Details submitted pursuant to conditions 3 (Sewage), 4 (External Materials), 5 (Joinery, Eaves & Ridge, Roof lights, Flues Details) 6 (Walls & Fences), 7 (Biodiversity) for planning permission PA/2022/2018
Swifts Green Farm, Bedlam Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PQ
Received 5 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1452
Construction of a timber pergola
3 Church View, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7DZ
Received 1 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1453
Proposed horse walker and turn out area.
The White Cottage, Lewd Lane, Smarden, TN27 8NP
Received 5 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeOTH/2024/1455
Details submitted pursuant to condition 14 (Parking) for planning permission 17/01840/AS
Former Naccolt Brickworks, Naccolt Road, Naccolt, Wye, TN25 5NX
Received 5 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1456
Proposed conversion of outbuilding to grounds keeper cottage
Smeeth Hill House, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6ST
Received 6 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1457
Installation of single sided illuminated Digital Advertisement Display
Petrol Filling Station, Ashford Road (A20), Ashford, Kent, TN26 1AP
Received 6 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeNOT/2024/1458
Prior notification for the change of use of agricultural buildings and land within its curtilage to 5 dwelling house's and associated operational development
Balcony Farm, Cuckoo Pitt Lane, Woodchurch, TN26 3TF
Received 6 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1459
Single-storey rear extension to include skylights following the demolition of existing outbuilding.
1 Park View Cottage, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LX
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeOTH/2024/1460
Reduce whole crown by 2 metres Crown lift over the highway to 5.2 metres Crown lift branches <75mm diameter over driveway and garden if required to 4 metres Remove dead wood (exempt works) Reasons: to ensure highway clearance and maintain the crown at a size that is appropriate for its context (Superseded spec - Oak tree: Crown reduction of 4 metres. Reason for work: branches have spread and are now close to the boundary of the house.)
10, Sandyhurst Lane, Ashford, TN25 4NS
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeNOT/2024/1461
Large Mature self seeded Oak - Fell
To the south of Church Lane, once Hothfield Manor.
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1462
Proposed automatic access gates to include brick piers.
Vesper Barn, Vesper Hawk Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PU
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1463
Creation of a proposed bridge to form a new vehicular access route to dwelling.
Harriers, Marsh Road, Hamstreet, TN26 2QW
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeNOT/2024/1464
Prior notification for a general purpose agricultural building
Little Oak Farm, Ashford Road, Bethersden, TN26 3BQ
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadeOTH/2024/1465
T1 - Sycamore - to be removed - leaning at a severe 45 degree angle, directly towards where planning permission has been granted for new housebuilding, car ports and fencing. The ground behind and directly against the rear of the trunk is visibly lifted indicating rootplate lift, which in addition to the severe lean of the tree and the granted permission for building works, makes it sensible to remove this tree before building works begin. It is proposed to mitigate the loss of this tree with the planting of two English Oaks within the area covered by the group TPO.
Millgarth, The Hill, Charing, TN27 0LU
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1466
First-floor side extension.
51 Shrubcote, Tenterden, TN30 7BP
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1467
Proposed single storey rear extension with rooflight
The Small Holding, Long Hill, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent. CT4 8BN
Received 7 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1468
Proposed replacement part single and two storey rear extension.
17 The Warren, Brabourne, TN25 6QG
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1469
Lawful Development Certificate for proposed rear extension and loft conversion with dormer window
14, Bournewood, Hamstreet, TN26 2HJ
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1470
Application for Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed infill to the two garden rooms to create one building
Oakside, New Road Hill, Aldington, TN25 7BH
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1471
Change of use from two existing self-contained flats into a single dwelling house.
31 Musgrove, Ashford, TN23 7UN
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1472
Application to discharge a Section 106 planning obligation on 15/01671/AS
Plot 1, Former Powergen site, Victoria Road, Ashford
Received 6 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1473
Replacement of two existing external windows to the front of the building on a like for like basis with wooden windows constructed to match.
1 New House Cottages, The Hill, Charing, TN27 0LU
Received 8 Aug 2024 - Decision MadePA/2024/1474
Replacement self-build dwelling along with associated facilities
Cedar House Farm, Canterbury Road, Challock, Ashford, TN25 4DL
Received 8 Aug 2024
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What these statistics cover
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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