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.
5,672 approved · 873 refused · 319 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rutherglen Dartford Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HY
Received 28 Mar 201738 Wellcome Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JW
Received 29 Mar 201750 Fairlight Cross Longfield Kent DA3 7JD
Received 29 Mar 201713 Royal Road Hawley Kent DA2 7RD
Received 29 Mar 201738 Fawkham Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7HF
Received 30 Mar 201754 Joydens Wood Road Bexley Kent DA5 2HT
Received 30 Mar 2017Land Adjacent Cricket Club Highcross Road Southfleet Kent
Received 29 Mar 2017Caravan Site Hillside Farm Darenth Hill Darenth DA2 7QR
Received 30 Mar 2017Berris Southfleet Road Bean Kent DA2 8BS
Received 31 Mar 2017Foxwood House 2A Beacon Drive Bean DA2 8BE
Received 31 Mar 2017Marringdean Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7AG
Received 31 Mar 201730 Gothic Close Wilmington Kent DA1 1PR
Received 31 Mar 2017Mill Pond Development Site Mill Pond Road Dartford Kent DA1 1BW
Received 30 Mar 201718 Lingfield Avenue Dartford Kent DA2 6AH
Received 30 Mar 2017Dartford East Health Centre Pilgrims Way Dartford Kent DA1 1QY
Received 31 Mar 20171 Warner House Cotton Lane Stone Kent DA9 9BF
Received 31 Mar 201747 Carrington Road Dartford Kent DA1 1XN
Received 31 Mar 20172, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20 And 23 Barker Fields Southfleet Kent
Received 31 Mar 2017Dartford Primary Academy (Juniors) York Road Dartford Kent DA1 1SQ
Received 3 Apr 2017Boundary Wall To Ingress Park Along The Avenue Greenhithe
Received 3 Apr 2017Land Off Northdown Road Longfield Kent
Received 3 Apr 2017The Chestnuts Pencroft Drive Dartford Kent DA1 2PB
Received 3 Apr 201720 Mildred Close Dartford Kent DA1 1XP
Received 31 Mar 201710 Brackendene Wilmington Kent DA2 7NB
Received 3 Apr 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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