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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4,611 approved · 20 refused · 205 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Lot K985743, Heartenoak Road, Hawkhurst, Kent, TN18 5EY
Received Not publishedAmherst School, Witches Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2AX
Received Not publishedSt Margarets-At-Cliffe Primary School, Sea Street, St Margarets-At-Cliffe, Dover, Kent, CT15 6SS
Received Not publishedBishops Down Primary School, Rydal Drive, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9SU
Received Not publishedLand adjacent to Selsted Primary School, Stockham Lane, Selsted, Dover, Kent, CT15 7HH
Received Not publishedBroadwater Down Primary School, Broadwater Lane, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 5RP
Received Not publishedSt Katherine's School, St Katherine's Lane, Snodland, Kent, ME6 5EJ
Received Not publishedLand at Gibson Drive, 30, Gibson Drive, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4QG
Received Not publishedThamesview School, Thong Lane, Gravesend, Kent DA12 4LF
Received Not publishedGravesend Wastewater Treatment Works (WTW), Dering Way, Denton, Gravesend, Kent DA12 2QF
Received Not publishedMadginford Park Junior School, Egremont Road, Bearsted, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 8LH
Received Not publishedCranbrook Extra Care Apartments, Quaker Lane, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 2HF
Received Not publishedLand at Tunstall Road, Tunstall, Sittingbourne, Kent
Received Not publishedHartlip Endowed C of E Primary School, The Street, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 7TL
Received Not publishedThe John Wallis Church Of England Academy, Millbank Road, Kingsnorth, Kent, TN23 3HG
Received Not publishedWorkhouse Quarry, Workhouse Road, Ryarsh, West Malling, Kent
Received Not publishedJoy Lane Primary School, Joy Lane, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 4LT
Received Not publishedWater Meadows Primary School, Shaftesbury Road, Hersden, Canterbury, Kent CT3 4HS
Received Not publishedFive Acre Wood School, Boughton Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9QF
Received Not publishedAshford Sludge Treatment Centre, Canterbury Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 9QB
Received Not publishedBodsham Curch Of England Primary School, Bodsham, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5JQ
Received Not publishedNew Line Learning Academy, Boughton Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9QF
Received Not publishedAylesford Quarry, Rochester Road, Aylesford, Kent ME20 7DX
Received Not publishedTemple Hill Primary Infants School, St Edmunds Road, Dartford, Kent, DA1 5ND
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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