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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.
3,553 approved · 314 refused · 310 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Jan 2023 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
87A Hadlow Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 1QD
Received 4 Jun 2025Mere House 54 The Street Mereworth Maidstone Kent ME18 5NA
Received 4 Jun 2025Mere House 54 The Street Mereworth Maidstone Kent ME18 5NA
Received 4 Jun 2025Land Formerly West Part Of Court Lane Nurseries Court Lane Hadlow Tonbridge Kent
Received 4 Jun 2025Ruskins Tumblefield Road Stansted Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7PS
Received 4 Jun 2025Cataract Cottage Horns Lodge Shipbourne Road Tonbridge Kent TN11 9NJ
Received 4 Jun 202562 Church Street Burham Rochester Kent ME1 3SD
Received 4 Jun 202512 Greenview Crescent Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9DT
Received 4 Jun 2025Development Site At The Hermitage Hermitage Lane Maidstone Kent
Received 4 Jun 20255 Wye Road Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8DX
Received 3 Jun 2025186 Bishops Oak Ride Tonbridge Kent TN10 3PF
Received 3 Jun 2025243 Lunsford Lane Larkfield Aylesford Kent ME20 6HT
Received 3 Jun 2025Bae, Marconi Avionics, Marconi Way, Rochester, Medway, ME1 2XX
Received 3 Jun 2025Bourne Grange Oast West Tonbridge Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 0DZ
Received 2 Jun 2025Bourne Grange Oast West Tonbridge Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 0DZ
Received 2 Jun 202585 Hopgarden Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 4QY
Received 2 Jun 2025Church Of St Michael Church Road Offham West Malling Kent
Received 2 Jun 2025The Birches 122 Teston Road West Malling Kent ME19 6PQ
Received 2 Jun 2025Land Opposite The Paddocks Birling Road Leybourne West Malling Kent
Received 30 May 2025Fairways Bordyke Tonbridge Kent TN9 1NW
Received 30 May 20257 Walton Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 4EE
Received 30 May 2025The Hermitage Lucks Hill West Malling Kent
Received 30 May 2025Little Rhoden Farm Bells Farm Road East Peckham Tonbridge Kent TN12 5NA
Received 30 May 202538 Gorse Crescent Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6EX
Received 12 May 2025Records 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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