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.
5,668 approved · 872 refused · 319 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
57 Devon Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9AA
Received 24 Mar 201731 Knole Road Dartford Kent DA1 3JN
Received 24 Mar 20172 Lambert Mews Southfleet Kent DA13 9AN
Received 24 Mar 2017Barns A & B Manor House Farm Westwood Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9LZ
Received 20 Mar 201713 Lowfield Street Dartford DA1 1EN
Received 27 Mar 2017Radha Krishna Pencroft Drive Dartford Kent DA1 2PB
Received 27 Mar 20171 Vaughan Avenue Greenhithe Kent DA9 9UU
Received 27 Mar 201758 Princes View Dartford Kent DA1 1RJ
Received 28 Mar 20177 Turnstone Longfield Kent DA3 7NR
Received 27 Mar 201712 Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0BB
Received 28 Mar 20173 Brent Close Dartford Kent DA2 6DD
Received 28 Mar 2017Court Wood House New Barn Road Southfleet Kent DA3 7LT
Received 20 Mar 201716 Copseside Hartley Kent DA3 7DU
Received 27 Mar 2017The Brent County Primary Junior And Infant School London Road Stone Kent DA2 6BA
Received 28 Mar 2017Port Of Tilbury
Received 28 Mar 201764 St Johns Road Dartford Kent DA2 6BG
Received 28 Mar 2017Opposite Old West Barn Westwood Farm Highcross Road Southfleet DA13 9PH
Received 28 Mar 2017Phase 2 Land At St Clements
Received 29 Mar 2017Phase 2 Land At St Clements
Received 29 Mar 201772 The Green Darenth Kent DA2 6JU
Received 29 Mar 201726 Fawkham Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QP
Received 29 Mar 20172 Roseberry Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 2NX
Received 29 Mar 201716 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA5 2HP
Received 29 Mar 201719 Louvain Road Horns Cross Greenhithe Kent DA9 9DY
Received 29 Mar 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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