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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 dates62,065Searchable applications
570Recorded as pending
87%Approval rate · 41,353 approved or refused records
5,234Refused applications
36,119 approved · 5,234 refused · 3,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Oct 1996 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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/2025/0687
Erection of cabin to provide farm office and rural workers accommodation (retrospective)
Woolpack Corner, Woolpack Corner Farm, Benenden Road, Biddenden, TN27 8BU
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0688
Change of use of land to facilitate an extension to a Gypsy and Traveller site to allow the site to accommodate 3no additional static homes and 3no additional tourer caravans, extended hardstanding, 1 dayroom, cesspit, fencing, 0.6m – 2m wall at entrance and associated soft landscaping. (part retrospective).
Cob Tree Meadows, Brook Street, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3SZ
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0689
Single-storey ancillary outbuilding
28, Bull Bridge Way, Chilmington Green, TN23 8AH
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0690
Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed - Vehicular crossover and associated hardstanding.
17, Royds Road, Willesborough, TN24 0DP
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0691
Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed - Single storey rear extension
3 West End Cottages, Tenterden Road, Appledore, Ashford, TN26 2AL
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0692
Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed - Vehicular crossover and porous driveway
3 Earls Avenue, Willesborough, TN24 0AB
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeNOT/2025/0693
2 x Holly Trees - Remove - These trees severely overhang the next door's garden (no. 72 & 74). They also cross the boundary lines at a low level, making it impossible to establish boundary lines, and the neighbours would like to renew the fencing. The works will be undertaken in September after the nesting season.
Land rear of 68 and 70, Ashford Road, Tenterden
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0694
Erection of veranda extension to the rear and side elevations (Part retrospective)
7, Hythe Crescent, Ashford, TN23 1DU
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeOTH/2025/0695
Details submitted pursuant to condition 2 (Replacement Hedge Planting) of Planning Permission PA/2025/0080
Land South Of Heartsay House, Headcorn Road, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8JY
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeOTH/2025/0696
Details submitted pursuant to conditions 6 (landscaping scheme) of planning permission PA/2022/2876
Madrona Nursery, Pluckley Road, Bethersden, Ashford, TN26 3DD
Received 3 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0697
Listed Building Consent for demolition of existing single storey extension and erection of replacement single storey extension. Internal & external works including new staircases, removal of internal walls and alterations to fenestration. Conversion of barn to storage. Conversion of pizza shed to function room.
The Kings Head, Church Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BN
Received 1 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0698
Proposed single-storey detached garage and new vehicular access onto Pluckley Road
Dering Wood Lodge, Pluckley Road, Smarden, TN27 8RE
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeNOT/2025/0700
Prior Notification for all weather surface agricultural track.
Elvey Farm, Elvey Lane, Pluckley, TN27 0SU
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeNOT/2025/0701
Prior approval for an agricultural storage building
Land North of Elvey lane, Elvey Lane, Pluckley, Ashford, Kent. TN27 0SU
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0702
Lawful Development Certificate - Existing - Use of Building as Residential Care Home (Class C2 Residential institution)
The Hall, Ashford Road, Hamstreet, Ashford, TN26 2EW
Received 8 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0703
Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed - Installation of external cladding
1 St Peters Way, Church Lane, Shadoxhurst, Ashford, TN26 1LS
Received 8 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeOTH/2025/0704
Regulation 77 application relating to application NOT/2025/0279 (Prior approval for the proposed change of use of a first-floor office space to 5 residential dwellings) to assess nutrient neutrality
Suite A Unit 4, Pluto House, 19-33 Station Road, Ashford, TN23 1PP
Received 2 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0706
Display of 4 x door vinyl stickers, 1 x wall sign and an A-board (A2) (retrospective)
Embassy House, High Street, Tenterden, TN30 6BN
Received 8 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeNOT/2025/0708
Prior approval of the design and siting of a stepped 'FLOW Bridge' footbridge at Cradle Bridge Level Crossing pursuant to Part 18 (Class A) of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015.
Cradle Bridge Level Crossing Conningbrook Park, Kennington Road, Willesborough
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0709
Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed -Construction of a garden games room/building
16 Towers View, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9PG
Received 7 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0711
Listed Building Consent for the replacement of 3No. windows located on the southeast and southwest elevations and 1No. pair of French doors located on the southeast elevation and the re-pointing of the lower front half of the northwestern (front) elevation
Chestnut House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LL
Received 9 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeNOT/2025/0712
T1 - Leylandii - Crown lift by 3.1 metres and an overall crown reduction by 1.22 metres to shape to allow full use of the garden. T2 - Leylandii - Crown lift by 3.1 metres and an overall crown reduction by 1.22 metres to shape to allow full use of the garden.
36 Station Road, Charing, TN27 0JA
Received 9 Apr 2025 - Decision MadeOTH/2025/0713
T1 - T15 Lime - Remove all epicormic growth up to approx. 5m and remove dead wood. Subject to approval, please may I request that this is set up so that we can repeat the above-mentioned specification biennially for a ten-year period.
Willesborough Cemetery, Church Road, Willesborough
Received 9 Apr 2025 - Decision MadePA/2025/0714
Single-storey detached outbuilding to create a garden room/home gym
2 Hill View Cottage, The Street, Brabourne, Ashford, TN25 5LR
Received 9 Apr 2025
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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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