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.
5,643 approved · 869 refused · 318 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Brent Close Dartford Kent DA2 6DB
Received 22 Feb 20177 Mannock Road Dartford Kent DA1 5QT
Received 22 Feb 2017Parish Of Darenth And Parish Of Horton Kirby
Received 23 Jan 201720 Caspian Way Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LE
Received 22 Feb 2017281 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1LB
Received 22 Feb 201741 Shiers Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5FQ
Received 22 Feb 20172A Stanley Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0HZ
Received 23 Feb 20176 Latham Close Darenth Kent DA2 6NS
Received 23 Feb 2017Adjacent 105 Hill House Road Dartford Kent DA2 6EX
Received 23 Feb 2017Bracton Centre Bracton Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7AF
Received 22 Feb 2017Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 23 Feb 2017The Woodyard Whitehill Road Southfleet Kent
Received 24 Feb 20175 Tower Road Dartford Kent DA1 2HE
Received 24 Feb 2017Church House Church Street Southfleet Kent DA13 9NR
Received 24 Feb 201734 Powell Avenue Darenth Kent DA2 6NT
Received 23 Feb 2017Church Of England Christ Church Cross Road Dartford Kent DA1 3ET
Received 24 Feb 201749 Browning Road Dartford Kent DA1 5ET
Received 27 Feb 20174 Royal Road Hawley Kent DA2 7RD
Received 24 Feb 201722 Gothic Close Wilmington Kent DA1 1PR
Received 27 Feb 2017109-111 Mounts Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9ND
Received 27 Feb 2017Hawley Mill Hawley Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SY
Received 27 Feb 2017Junction Abbey Drive And Sandringham Road And Outside 23-25 Abbey Drive Dartford Kent
Received 27 Feb 2017The Woodyard Whitehill Road Southfleet Kent
Received 24 Feb 2017The Woodyard Whitehill Road Southfleet Kent
Received 24 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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