Planning Application Clearance Week 23 – 27 May 2022 The Council’s Planning Applications Team will be unavailable for normal business during the period 23 - 27 May as they focus their efforts on dealing with planning applications and reducing a backlog of work which has developed due to circumstances beyond their control. This is part of an improvement initiative which will enable us to provide a better quality service. Please note that during this week the planning applications team will not be available to respond to queries on the telephone or by e-mail. Our support team will only be available to deal with urgent queries and can be contacted at planning.help@ashford.gov.uk but otherwise we ask that you withhold from contacting the planning officers in that week.