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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.
3,768 approved · 341 refused · 331 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 At Junction Of Clare Wood Drive And Clare Lane East Malling West Malling Kent
Received 24 Jan 2024Taddington Wood Lane Chatham Kent
Received 24 Jan 20241 Staddleswood Place Platt Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8JN
Received 23 Jan 2024Central Lodge Gravesend Road Wrotham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7JW
Received 22 Jan 2024West Bank Lodge 68 Sevenoaks Road Borough Green Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8AP
Received 22 Jan 2024Addington Recreation Ground Park Road Addington West Malling Kent
Received 22 Jan 2024Conservation Area Addington
Received 23 Jan 2024First Floor 36 - 38 High Street West Malling Kent ME19 6QR
Received 23 Jan 2024First Floor 36 - 38 High Street West Malling Kent ME19 6QR
Received 23 Jan 202432 Priory Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 2AN
Received 23 Jan 202415 Offham Road West Malling Kent ME19 6RB
Received 23 Jan 2024The Spinney London Road Wrotham Heath Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7RS
Received 23 Jan 2024The Round House Dene Park Shipbourne Road Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 9NS
Received 23 Jan 202418 Deakin Leas Tonbridge Kent TN9 2JU
Received 23 Jan 202415 Quindell Place Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4GQ
Received 23 Jan 2024Burham Water Supply Works Old Church Road Burham Rochester Kent ME1 3XZ
Received 23 Jan 202454 Priory Grove Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6BB
Received 22 Jan 2024Church House 137 High Street West Malling Kent ME19 6ND
Received 19 Jan 2024Salvation Army Citadel 50 The Freehold East Peckham Tonbridge Kent TN12 5AQ
Received 19 Jan 202421 Medway View Three Elm Lane Golden Green Tonbridge Kent TN11 0BG
Received 18 Jan 202427 Nutfields Ightham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 9EA
Received 18 Jan 2024East Malling Research Station New Road East Malling West Malling Kent
Received 18 Jan 2024Land North And East Of Tree House Yopps Green Plaxtol Sevenoaks Kent TN15 0PY
Received 19 Jan 2024St Peters Church Of England Primary School Mount Pleasant Aylesford Kent ME20 7BE
Received 19 Jan 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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