Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 Dartford Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,628 approved · 866 refused · 316 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Oct 2014 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Hook Green Farm Hook Green Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9NQ
Received 27 Jan 2017The Barn Holmesdale Hill South Darenth Kent
Received 27 Jan 201736 Shearwater Longfield Kent DA3 7NL
Received 30 Jan 20173A The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YD
Received 30 Jan 20179 Alfan Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7HB
Received 30 Jan 201767-89 (o) And 91-101 (o) Wordsworth Way Dartford Kent
Received 30 Jan 201743-65(o), 78-112(e), 99-121(o), 114-124(e) Hilltop Gardens, 14-84(e) St Edmunds Road, 1-48 Patterson Court, 7-19(o) Tennyson Road Dartford Kent
Received 30 Jan 201788-98 (e) And 100-122 (e) Temple Hill Dartford Kent
Received 30 Jan 201791 Spurrell Avenue Bexley Kent DA5 2EX
Received 30 Jan 201783 Chestnut Grove Wilmington Kent DA2 7PQ
Received 31 Jan 201764 Chastilian Road Dartford Kent DA1 3JZ
Received 31 Jan 2017Former Central Park Nursery Central Park Cranford Road Dartford DA1 1JP
Received 31 Jan 201714 Barker Fields Southfleet Kent DA13 9AL
Received 31 Jan 2017Radha Krishna Pencroft Drive Dartford Kent DA1 2PB
Received 31 Jan 20171 Baldwyns Park Bexley Kent DA1 2BE
Received 31 Jan 201731 Fawkham Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7HS
Received 31 Jan 2017Land North Of Hedge Place Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 2 Feb 20174 Frobisher Way Greenhithe Kent DA9 9JN
Received 2 Feb 2017Former Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 1 Feb 2017Highgrove House New Barn Road Southfleet Kent DA3 7LT
Received 1 Feb 2017Bluewater Shopping Centre Upper Thames Walk Bluewater Greenhithe Kent
Received 2 Feb 201742 Chatsworth Road Dartford Kent DA1 5AT
Received 2 Feb 201725 Berkeley Crescent Dartford Kent DA1 1NH
Received 3 Feb 2017Eastern Quarry Wastewater Treatment Works Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 2 Feb 2017Records 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 Dartford 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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