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 · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Swale Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
63 approved · 11 refused · 3 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 2 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
13 Kings Acre Downswood Kent ME15 8UP
Received Not publishedM20 Service Station M20 Junction 8 From Junction 7 Off Slip Maidstone Kent ME17 1SS
Received Not publishedSchool Of Science And Technology Maidstone New Cut Road Maidstone Kent ME14 5GQ
Received Not publishedM20 Service Station M20 Junction 8 From Junction 7 Off Slip Maidstone Kent ME17 1SS
Received Not publishedJohn Copland & Son 77 High Street Sheerness Kent ME12 1TX
Received Not publishedGladwish Farm, Gladwish Lodge Headcorn Road Sutton Valence Kent ME17 3EL
Received Not published32 Courtenay Road Dunkirk Kent ME13 9LH
Received Not publishedUnit 1A Farleigh Hill Trading Estate Farleigh Hill Tovil Kent ME15 6RG
Received Not published5 Peacock Place Hogbens Hill Selling Kent ME13 9RB
Received Not publishedLedian Oast Upper Street Leeds Kent ME17 1RZ
Received Not publishedLand East Of Albion Road And North Of Copper Lane Marden Kent TN12 9EG
Received Not publishedLand East Of Albion Road And North Of Copper Lane Marden Kent TN12 9EG
Received Not published70 Huntington Road Coxheath Kent ME17 4DY
Received Not publishedLand At Foxwood Chalky Road Stockbury Kent ME9 7QR
Received Not publishedGreen Farm Stalisfield Road Stalisfield Kent ME13 0HY
Received Not publishedAldi Foodstore Tettenhall Way Faversham Kent ME13 8YA
Received Not publishedWhiteways Farm Hermitage Lane Boughton Monchelsea Kent ME17 4DA
Received Not published4 Ash Gardens Lenham Road Headcorn Kent TN27 9LG
Received Not published4A Ash Gardens Lenham Road Headcorn Kent TN27 9LG
Received Not publishedKent Medical Campus And Newnham Court Shopping Village Newnham Court Way Weavering Kent ME14 5LH
Received Not publishedWoodstock The Street Doddington Kent ME9 0BH
Received Not published77 Bank Street Maidstone Kent ME14 1SJ
Received Not published52 Sittingbourne Road Maidstone Kent ME14 5HZ
Received Not published78 Bank Street Maidstone Kent ME14 1SJ
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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Swale 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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