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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.
3,781 approved · 342 refused · 331 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Yardley Park Road Tonbridge Kent
Received 10 Oct 2023Shipbourne Road Tonbridge Kent
Received 10 Oct 2023Former 12 Shipbourne Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 3DJ
Received 10 Oct 2023Dry Hill Road Tonbridge Kent
Received 10 Oct 2023191 Vale Road Tonbridge Kent TN9 1ST
Received 18 Dec 2023Kentish Rifleman Dunks Green Road Shipbourne Tonbridge Kent TN11 9RU
Received 29 Nov 2023The Coach House Stone Street Road Ivy Hatch Sevenoaks Kent TN15 0PQ
Received 18 Dec 20231 High Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1SG
Received 18 Dec 202342 Brookmead Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9DW
Received 18 Dec 2023M C Truck And Bus Ltd Beddow Way Aylesford Kent ME20 7BT
Received 18 Dec 2023Cherry Tree Farmhouse Pilgrims Way Aylesford Kent ME20 7DD
Received 18 Dec 2023Bolton Cottage Fartherwell Road West Malling Kent ME19 6RH
Received 18 Dec 202322 Alderwick Grove Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4GB
Received 18 Dec 2023Broomscroft 143 Canon Lane Wateringbury Maidstone Kent ME18 5PQ
Received 18 Dec 202314 Auden Road Larkfield Aylesford Kent ME20 6TL
Received 18 Dec 20235 Vicarage Close Aylesford Kent ME20 7BB
Received 15 Dec 2023Rose Cottage 2 Grange Cottages Upper Green Road Shipbourne Tonbridge Kent TN11 9PJ
Received 15 Dec 2023The Embers Ashes Lane Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 9QU
Received 15 Dec 202321 Correnden Road Tonbridge Kent TN10 3AT
Received 15 Dec 2023Land South Of London Road And East Of Hermitage Lane Aylesford Kent
Received 15 Dec 2023Gardeners Cottage 29 Keepers Cottage Lane Wouldham Rochester Kent ME1 3FH
Received 15 Dec 20237 Castle Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1BH
Received 15 Dec 202353 St Katherines Lane Snodland Kent ME6 5ER
Received 15 Dec 2023Trinity Court Rochester Road Aylesford Kent ME20 7BQ
Received 15 Dec 2023Records 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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