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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
40,435 approved · 5,698 refused · 3,562 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Aug 1995 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Balcony House, Brook Street, Woodchurch, TN26 3SX
Received 17 Dec 202511, Little Chequers, Wye, TN25 5DT
Received 17 Dec 2025Woodlands Park, Tenterden Road, Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8BT
Received 17 Dec 202535 Silver Hill Road, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0NZ
Received 17 Dec 2025William Harvey Hospital, Kennington Road, Willesborough, TN24 0LZ
Received 17 Dec 2025High Halden Above Ground Installation, Woodchurch Road, High Halden
Received 17 Dec 202524, Bull Bridge Way, Chilmington Green, TN23 8AH
Received 17 Dec 2025156 Kingsnorth Road, Ashford, TN23 6LS
Received 18 Dec 2025Fullers Way, Biddenden
Received 18 Dec 202517-19 & 21 Church Street, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5BN
Received 15 Dec 2025Land between railway line and, Willesborough Road
Received 18 Dec 202530 The Street, Kennington, TN24 9HB
Received 18 Dec 202511, Barley Way, Kingsnorth, TN23 3JA
Received 18 Dec 2025Hogben House, Church Lane, Aldington, TN25 7EG
Received 18 Dec 2025Doublequick Farm, Lenham Heath Road, Charing, Maidstone, ME17 2JN
Received 18 Dec 2025Nimrod Hall Farm, Sissinghurst Road, Biddenden, TN27 8EU
Received 18 Dec 2025Circus Farm, Biddenden Road, Smarden, TN27 8QG
Received 18 Dec 2025Smallhythe Place, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7NG
Received 18 Dec 2025Ferndale, Stalisfield Road, Charing, TN27 0NP
Received 19 Dec 202517 Craythorne, Tenterden, TN30 6SD
Received 19 Dec 2025Orbital House, Moat Way, Sevington, Ashford, TN24 0TT
Received 19 Dec 2025Lady Joanna Thornhill Endowed Primary School, Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford TN25 5EA
Received 19 Dec 202538 Maytham Road, Rolvenden, TN17 4NP
Received 19 Dec 2025Glebe Orchard Barn, Bowerland Lane, Chilham, Ashford, CT4 8AT
Received 16 Dec 2025Records 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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