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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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Kent County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,611 approved · 20 refused · 205 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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A2 Activity Park, Land between the new A2 and the redundant A2 Watling Street, Pepper Hill, Gravesend, Kent
Received Not publishedSandown School, Golf Road, Deal, Kent, CT14 6PY
Received Not publishedChevening CEP School, Chevening Road, Chipstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2SA
Received Not publishedBarham CEP School, Valley Road, Barham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 6NX
Received Not publishedTunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School, Southfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9UJ
Received Not publishedNew Line Learning Academy, Boughton Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9QF
Received Not publishedChislet CEP School, Church Lane, Chislet, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 4DU
Received Not publishedLand north of Ellington and Hereson School, Newlands Lane, Ramsgate, Kent, CT12 6RH
Received Not publishedTunbridge Wells Grammar School For Boys, St. Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9XB
Received Not publishedLady Boswell's CE Primary School, Plymouth Drive, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3RW
Received Not publishedGas Utilisation Plant, Stangate Landfill Site, Quarry Hill Road, Borough Green, Kent, TN15 8RA
Received Not publishedSchool Lodge, Cranbrook School, Waterloo Road, Cranbrook, TN17 3JD
Received Not publishedManor Park Country Park, St. Leonard's Street, West Malling, Kent, ME19 6PD
Received Not publishedSimon Langton Grammar School For Boys, Simon Langton Grammar School For Boys, Langton Lane, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 7AS
Received Not publishedMayfield Grammar School, Pelham Road, Gravesend, Kent DA11 0JE
Received Not publishedThe Beacon Satellite, Salisbury Road, Walmer, CT14 7QJ
Received Not publishedSandling Primary School, Ashburnham Road, Maidstone, ME14 2JG
Received Not publishedGravesend Grammar School For Boys, Church Walk, Gravesend, Kent DA12 2PR
Received Not publishedDungeness Borrow Pit, Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent, TN29 9NA
Received Not publishedThe Judd School, Brook Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 2PN
Received Not publishedFormer Chaucer Technology School, Spring Lane, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1ST
Received Not publishedLand to the north and south of the A299 (Hengist Way) and to the east of the A256 (Richborough Way), including an existing railway line and part of the existing A299, Cliffsend, Kent (Thanet Parkway Station)
Received Not publishedLand through the chalk spine under the B255 Bean Road, Bluewater Shopping Centre and Eastern Quarry, Dartford, Greenhithe, Kent DA9 9ST
Received Not publishedCountrystyle Recycling Ltd, Ridham Dock Road, Iwade, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8SR
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Kent County 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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