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.
5,638 approved · 868 refused · 316 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Louvain Road Horns Cross Kent DA9 9DY
Received 9 Feb 201741 Cedar Drive Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9EW
Received 10 Feb 201722 Raeburn Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3BG
Received 13 Feb 2017Former Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 13 Feb 2017Former Longfield Delivery Office 34 Hartley Road Longfield Kent DA3 7PP
Received 8 Feb 201713 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1EN
Received 14 Feb 20173 Hall Road Dartford Kent DA1 5HB
Received 14 Feb 20178 Wessex Walk Dartford Kent DA2 7WE
Received 14 Feb 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 16 Feb 201737 Perkins Close Stone Kent DA9 9QF
Received 16 Feb 201753 Norfield Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7NY
Received 16 Feb 201774 Milestone Road Dartford Kent DA2 6DN
Received 16 Feb 2017Plot 17 The Bridge Brunel Way Dartford Kent
Received 15 Feb 2017South Barn Westwood Farm Highcross Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PH
Received 16 Feb 2017South Barn Westwood Farm Highcross Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PH
Received 16 Feb 2017Former Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 14 Feb 2017Former Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 16 Feb 2017Woodlands 35 Foxwood Way Longfield Kent DA3 7LD
Received 16 Feb 2017Former Abbott Murex Site Lower Hythe Street Dartford Kent
Received 17 Feb 201713 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1EN
Received 14 Feb 201713 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1EN
Received 14 Feb 20173 Atlantic Close Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LJ
Received 17 Feb 2017Darent Valley Hospital Darenth Wood Road Darenth Kent DA2 8DA
Received 17 Feb 20179 Sullivan Close Dartford Kent DA1 2NJ
Received 17 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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