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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.
3,817 approved · 350 refused · 337 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Jan 2023 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 Montfort Road Chatham Kent ME5 9HA
Received 11 Dec 2023Court Lane Farmhouse Court Lane Hadlow Tonbridge Kent TN11 0DP
Received 11 Dec 202323 The Ridgeway Tonbridge Kent TN10 4NH
Received 11 Dec 202313 Cromer Street Tonbridge Kent TN9 1UP
Received 11 Dec 2023Selbys Farm Leigh Road Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9AQ
Received 11 Dec 202356 Town Hill West Malling Kent ME19 6QN
Received 11 Dec 202311 Braeburn Way Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4BN
Received 11 Dec 2023The White Cottage 171 Tonbridge Road Wateringbury Maidstone Kent ME18 5NU
Received 11 Dec 2023366 Tonbridge Road East Peckham Tonbridge Kent TN12 5LE
Received 8 Dec 202310 Oldbury Close Ightham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 9DJ
Received 8 Dec 2023River Medway Tonbridge And Malling Bc Kent
Received 8 Dec 202366 Park Road Leybourne West Malling Kent ME19 5HP
Received 5 Dec 2023Tree House Yopps Green Plaxtol Sevenoaks Kent TN15 0PY
Received 30 Oct 20236 Chapel Street East Malling West Malling Kent ME19 6AP
Received 30 Oct 202360, Dry Hill Park Road, Tonbridge, TN10 3BX
Received 29 Sept 202371 Cherry Orchard Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6QS
Received 29 Sept 2023Braddan Riding Lane Hildenborough Tonbridge Kent TN11 9LR
Received 29 Sept 202371 Cherry Orchard Ditton Aylesford Kent ME20 6QS
Received 29 Sept 2023Glebe Land, Rectory Lane, Ightham, Sevenoaks
Received 29 Sept 202375, Chestnut Lodge, Rectory Lane North, Leybourne, West Malling, West Malling, ME19 5HD
Received 29 Sept 2023102 Hazen Road Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4DF
Received 29 Sept 2023Land Northwest Of, Bell Lane, Burham, Rochester
Received 29 Sept 2023Land Northwest Of Bell Lane Burham Rochester Kent
Received 29 Sept 2023Land Northwest Of, Bell Lane, Burham, Rochester
Received 29 Sept 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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