Understanding planning · 13 min read
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4,611 approved · 20 refused · 205 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Detling CEP School, The Street, Detling, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 3JT
Received Not publishedEast Borough Primary School, Vinters Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5DX
Received Not publishedBritannia Refined Metals Ltd, Britannia Metal Refinery And Premises, Lower Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 9BG
Received Not publishedSt. Josephs RC Primary School, Springhead Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 9QZ
Received Not publishedSt John's CEP School, 7 St. Johns Place, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1BD
Received Not publishedRiverview Infant School, Cimba Wood, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4SD
Received Not publishedSittingbourne Wastewater Treatment Works (WTW), Gas Road, Church Marshes, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 2QE
Received Not publishedMeadowfield School, Swanstree Avenue, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4NL
Received Not publishedOff Stirling Way, Ramsgate, Kent, CT12 6NB
Received Not publishedA28 Sturry Link Road, Sturry, Canterbury, Kent CT20
Received Not publishedChilston Sandpit, Sandway Road, Sandway, Maidstone, ME17 2LU
Received Not publishedMaidstone Grammar School, Barton Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 7BT
Received Not publishedFleetdown Infant School, Lunedale Road, Dartford, Kent, DA2 6JX
Received Not publishedThe King Ethelbert School, Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9BL
Received Not publishedWhite Cliffs Primary College for the Arts, St Radigunds Road, Dover, Kent, CT17 0LB
Received Not publishedLand off Eversley Road, Seabrook, Hythe, Kent, CT21 5SE
Received Not publishedPreston Primary School, Mill Lane, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1HB
Received Not publishedFurley Park Primary School, Reed Crescent, Park Farm, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3PA
Received Not publishedHugh Christie Technology College, Norwich Avenue, Tonbridge, Kent, TN10 4QL
Received Not publishedMaypole Primary School, Franklin Road, Dartford, Kent, DA2 7UZ
Received Not publishedThe Judd School, Brook Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2PN
Received Not publishedSouth Borough Primary School, Stagshaw Close, Maidstone, Kent ME15 6TL
Received Not publishedTonbridge Grammar School For Girls, Deakin Leas, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2JR
Received Not publishedGreatness Quarry, Farm Road, Sevenoaks, Kent
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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