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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,433 approved · 303 refused · 297 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Jan 2023 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
1 Tonbridge Road Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9BH
Received 3 Mar 202641 Lapins Lane Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4LE
Received 3 Mar 2026The Vicarage Birling Road Ryarsh West Malling Kent ME19 5LS
Received 3 Mar 2026Willow Tree Stables Vines Lane Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9LT
Received 3 Mar 2026Russet Tiles Mill Lane Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9LX
Received 3 Mar 202631 Hadlow Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 1LF
Received 3 Mar 2026Land West Of Little Foxbush Cottage Noble Tree Road Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent
Received 3 Mar 2026Land Between Falkland Place And Walsham Road Walderslade Chatham Kent
Received 3 Mar 202618 Knowsley Way Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9LG
Received 3 Mar 20262 Challenger Avenue West Malling Kent ME19 4XF
Received 3 Mar 2026Paris Farm Maidstone Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent
Received 4 Mar 202632 The Haydens Tonbridge Kent TN9 1NS
Received 4 Mar 202612 Cardinal Close Tonbridge Kent TN9 2EN
Received 4 Mar 20262 Meadow Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 2SX
Received 4 Mar 2026Kingdom Hall Of Jehovahs Witnesses Mill Street Snodland Kent ME6 5AT
Received 4 Mar 20263 Rowan Shaw Tonbridge Kent TN10 3QA
Received 4 Mar 2026The Old Cottage Old London Road Wrotham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7DJ
Received 4 Mar 202633 Hill Chase Chatham Kent ME5 9HE
Received 4 Mar 2026The North Pole Inn 434 Red Hill Wateringbury Maidstone Kent ME18 5BJ
Received 5 Mar 2026Cherington Trottiscliffe Road Addington West Malling Kent ME19 5AZ
Received 5 Mar 2026Gibson Building Gibson Drive Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4LZ
Received 5 Mar 20262 Seagrove Cottages Malthouse Road Stansted Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7PH
Received 5 Mar 202645 Montfort Road Chatham Kent ME5 9EZ
Received 5 Mar 20262 Pinewood Close Leybourne West Malling Kent ME19 5FH
Received 5 Mar 2026Records 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 Tonbridge and Malling 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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