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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.
3,599 approved · 318 refused · 318 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Hollow Lane Snodland Kent ME6 5LT
Received 17 Feb 2025251 Snodland Road Birling West Malling Kent ME19 5JQ
Received 17 Feb 202515 Dobson Close Leybourne West Malling Kent ME19 5SQ
Received 17 Feb 202517 Woodview Crescent Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9HD
Received 14 Feb 2025Fanecourt Upper Green Road Shipbourne Tonbridge Kent TN11 9PL
Received 14 Feb 20253 Brickmakers Meadows Platt Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8NQ
Received 14 Feb 2025Vauxhall Inn Vauxhall Lane Tonbridge Kent TN11 0NA
Received 14 Feb 2025Land Around Coppice Court 70 Teston Road Wateringbury Maidstone Kent
Received 14 Feb 2025Land South East Of The Croft Common Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent
Received 23 Dec 202437 The Stream Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6AG
Received 23 Dec 2024476 Red Hill Wateringbury Maidstone Kent ME18 5BE
Received 23 Dec 2024Broadwater Hall 52 Broadwater Road West Malling Kent ME19 6HX
Received 20 Dec 2024North Frith North Frith Park Hadlow Tonbridge Kent
Received 16 Dec 202433B Yardley Park Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 1NB
Received 16 Dec 202442 St Peters Road Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6PF
Received 11 Dec 2024Maryland St Marys Road Wrotham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7AP
Received 16 Dec 2024Eagle Lodge 28 Mill Lane Wateringbury Maidstone Kent ME18 5PE
Received 16 Dec 20241 Parkway Tonbridge Kent TN10 4RA
Received 16 Dec 2024Land South Of Barming Station And East Of Hermitage Lane Maidstone Kent
Received 13 Dec 2024Flat Above 42 High Street Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8BJ
Received 13 Dec 2024453 Wateringbury Road East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6JQ
Received 13 Dec 2024RSPCA Centre 199 Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent ME19 5HW
Received 13 Dec 20241 Blacklands Drive East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6DT
Received 13 Dec 2024Land From Little Mill To Pinkham Lane South Of Snoll Hatch Road East Peckham Tonbridge Kent
Received 13 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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