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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.
3,526 approved · 311 refused · 303 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
105 Bull Lane Eccles Aylesford Kent ME20 7HT
Received 22 Sept 2025More Park R C Primary School Lucks Hill West Malling Kent ME19 6HN
Received 22 Sept 2025Land North East Of The Hurst Stan Lane West Peckham Maidstone Kent
Received 22 Sept 2025Premier Inn Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent
Received 22 Sept 2025Applied Distribution Ltd Laverstoke Road Allington Maidstone Kent ME16 0LE
Received 22 Sept 2025Playing Fields Tonbridge School High Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1JP
Received 16 Sept 202561 Fernleigh Rise Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6BS
Received 22 Sept 2025Land South West Of London Road And West Of Castor Park Allington Maidstone Kent
Received 22 Sept 2025Burham Water Supply Works Old Church Road Burham Rochester Kent ME1 3XZ
Received 22 Sept 2025629 London Road Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6DJ
Received 22 Sept 20252 Great Hayesden Cottages Lower Haysden Lane Tonbridge Kent TN11 9BA
Received 22 Sept 20252 Great Hayesden Cottages Lower Haysden Lane Tonbridge Kent TN11 9BA
Received 22 Sept 20252A Woodside Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 2PD
Received 22 Sept 202522 Alma Road West Malling Kent ME19 6RP
Received 22 Sept 2025Glenwood Spring Lane Ightham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 9DR
Received 22 Sept 202521 Exeter Close Tonbridge Kent TN10 4NS
Received 22 Sept 20254 Francis Cottages London Road Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 8NQ
Received 19 Sept 20254 Francis Cottages London Road Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 8NQ
Received 19 Sept 2025Homestead Sandy Lane Ryarsh West Malling Kent ME19 6TG
Received 19 Sept 2025Unit 1 15 Brooks Drive Ryarsh West Malling Kent ME19 5GS
Received 19 Sept 2025Unit 1 And Unit 3 Click Aylesford Frank Sando Way Aylesford Kent ME20 7NY
Received 19 Sept 2025Land Rear Of Woodbury Road Walsham Road And Falkland Place Chatham Kent
Received 18 Sept 2025Gibson Building Gibson Drive Kings Hill West Malling ME19 4LZ
Received 17 Nov 2025Foxglove Cottage Ashes Lane Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 0AN
Received 17 Nov 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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