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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
40,773 approved · 5,734 refused · 3,578 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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3 The Chestnuts, Smeeth, Ashford, TN25 6SU
Received 11 Mar 2026Bridge Cottage, Highfield Lane, Sevington, TN24 0FN
Received 11 Mar 2026Upton House, 39 Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LL
Received 11 Mar 2026Ham Leas Farmhouse, Marsh Road, Hamstreet, Ashford, TN26 2QW
Received 11 Mar 2026Trybairn, Blackwall Road, Wittersham, TN30 7EG
Received 11 Mar 2026The Annexe, Great Bromley Farm, Blackwall Road, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5PA
Received 11 Mar 2026Great Bromley Farm, Blackwall Road, Wye, Ashford, TN25 5PA
Received 11 Mar 2026Papillons, Station Road, Appledore, TN26 2DF
Received 11 Mar 2026Barn South West of, Cott Farm, Cot Lane, Biddenden
Received 11 Mar 202639 The Green, Woodchurch, Ashford, TN26 3PF
Received 11 Mar 202641, John Amoore Lane, Ashford, TN23 3SY
Received 12 Mar 202622 Dexter Close, Kennington, Ashford, TN25 4QG
Received 12 Mar 2026Stonebridge Manor, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden, TN30 6PY
Received 12 Mar 2026Robin Hood Cottage, Canterbury Road, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0EY
Received 4 Mar 202620 Canon Woods Way, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9QY
Received 12 Mar 2026Land rear of 17, Townland Close, Biddenden
Received 12 Mar 2026Dering Wood and Frith Wood, Smarden Bell Road, Smarden
Received 6 Mar 2026Broomy Lodge, Brissenden Green Lane, Bethersden, Ashford, TN26 3JX
Received 11 Mar 2026Lower Park Farm, Church Lane, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7EJ
Received 4 Mar 202620 High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AH
Received 12 Mar 202615 Osborne Road, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0ED
Received 5 Mar 2026Merton House, Hambrook Lane, Chilham, CT4 8DJ
Received 12 Mar 2026Horton View, Fiddling Lane, Brabourne, Ashford, TN25 6AP
Received 12 Mar 202615 Pondmore Way, Ashford, TN25 4LU
Received 13 Mar 2026Records 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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