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 Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,434 approved · 303 refused · 297 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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 The Pavilion Tonbridge Kent TN9 1TE
Received 11 Mar 20261 The Pavilion Tonbridge Kent TN9 1TE
Received 11 Mar 2026Sovereign Way Mid Car Park Sovereign Way Tonbridge Kent TN9 1RG
Received 11 Mar 2026Oxen Hoath Oxenhoath Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 9SS
Received 11 Mar 2026Oxen Hoath Oxenhoath Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 9SS
Received 11 Mar 2026Cobdown Sports Ground Station Road Ditton Aylesford Kent
Received 11 Mar 2026Redwell House Redwell Lane Ightham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 9EE
Received 11 Mar 202628 The Drive Tonbridge Kent TN9 2LP
Received 11 Mar 202630 Acorn Grove Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6EW
Received 11 Mar 2026The Mount 65 Crouch Lane Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8LU
Received 11 Mar 2026Priors House 18 King Street West Malling Kent ME19 6QT
Received 11 Mar 202616 East Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1HG
Received 12 Mar 2026OTG Precision Engineering Ltd Maidstone Road Platt Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8JE
Received 12 Mar 202647 Brookmead Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9DW
Received 12 Mar 2026Chandler House 56 Quarry Hill Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 2SA
Received 12 Mar 2026Thrift Cottage Common Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 0JE
Received 12 Mar 202615 Ryarsh Lane West Malling Kent ME19 6QP
Received 12 Mar 2026Canham Business Centre 426 Vale Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 1SW
Received 12 Mar 2026The Old Bell House 144 Lower Warren Road Aylesford Kent ME20 7EH
Received 13 Mar 2026Ivy Cottage 740 Pilgrims Way Wouldham Rochester Kent ME1 3RB
Received 13 Mar 202637 Lingfield Road Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8HJ
Received 13 Mar 2026308 Shipbourne Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 3NH
Received 13 Mar 202637 Higham Lane Tonbridge Kent TN10 4JE
Received 13 Mar 20261 Waterloo Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 2SN
Received 16 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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