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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.
3,646 approved · 325 refused · 320 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Jan 2023 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent Ditton Common North Of Rede Wood Road Oakapple Lane Barming Kent
Received 6 Sept 202425 Teapot Lane Aylesford Kent ME20 7JX
Received 6 Sept 2024High Barn House 100 Tonbridge Road Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9BT
Received 6 Sept 202412 Abbott Road Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8SB
Received 6 Sept 2024Church Cottage Fen Pond Road Ightham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 9JD
Received 6 Sept 2024The Garage Cuckoo Lane Tonbridge Kent TN11 0AG
Received 6 Sept 202415 Dry Bank Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 3BS
Received 6 Sept 202445 Mill Street East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6DA
Received 6 Sept 202439 Hornbeam Close Larkfield Aylesford Kent ME20 6LZ
Received 5 Sept 202433B Yardley Park Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 1NB
Received 22 Aug 20243 Vicarage Close Aylesford Kent ME20 7BB
Received 5 Sept 2024Land Both Eastbound And Westbound But East Of Roundabout London Road West Malling Kent
Received 23 Aug 2024Land Fronting 128 High Street Tonbridge Kent
Received 23 Aug 2024High Street Hadlow Tonbridge Kent
Received 23 Aug 20248 Swift Close Larkfield Aylesford Kent ME20 6QB
Received 5 Sept 20244 Charlton Terrace Tonbridge Kent TN9 1PG
Received 5 Sept 2024148 - 150 Mill Street East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6BW
Received 5 Sept 2024Barn West Of Ambleside Reeds Lane Shipbourne Tonbridge Kent
Received 4 Sept 2024Tea Room At Hill Top Farm The Heath East Malling West Malling Kent
Received 4 Sept 2024146 High Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1BB
Received 4 Sept 202487 Fairfield Road Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8DL
Received 4 Sept 2024Almshouse Land Rear Of 1-4 Betenson Cottages St Marys Road Wrotham Sevenoaks Kent
Received 17 Dec 202498 Brookmead Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9EX
Received 17 Dec 2024146 High Street Wouldham Rochester Kent ME1 3UQ
Received 17 Dec 2024Records 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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