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.
5,683 approved · 874 refused · 320 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Abbey Drive Dartford Kent DA2 7WP
Received 18 Apr 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 18 Apr 2017West Wing Pescot House Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7AE
Received 18 Apr 201766 Cedar Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RS
Received 18 Apr 2017Station House Station Road Southfleet DA13 9PA
Received 19 Apr 2017Premier Work 11 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DT
Received 19 Apr 2017Bellevue Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7PW
Received 19 Apr 2017Station House Station Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PA
Received 19 Apr 201754 Ashen Drive Dartford Kent DA1 3LU
Received 20 Apr 201738 Devonshire Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3DW
Received 20 Apr 20174 Anvil Terrace Dartford Kent DA2 7WR
Received 20 Apr 2017Zone C Plot 2 Former Littlebrook Business Centre Artillery Street Dartford Kent
Received 19 Apr 2017125 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QU
Received 20 Apr 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 18 Apr 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 18 Apr 2017Mounts Cottage Mounts Court Mounts Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9LX
Received 21 Apr 2017Old Police Lock Up West Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2FD
Received 21 Apr 2017Old Police Lock Up West Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2FD
Received 21 Apr 201786 Warren Road Wilmington Kent DA1 1PL
Received 21 Apr 20172 Lambert Mews Southfleet Kent DA13 9AN
Received 21 Apr 201775 Wentworth Drive Dartford Kent DA1 3NQ
Received 21 Apr 2017DiaSorin Central Road Dartford Kent DA1 5LR
Received 21 Apr 2017Along Ingress Park Avenue Greenhithe Kent
Received 21 Apr 2017162 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 24 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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