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.
5,695 approved · 874 refused · 326 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holy Trinity Church High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DE
Received 9 May 2017Holy Trinity Church High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DE
Received 9 May 2017Land East Of Telephone Exchange Land At Little Hithe London Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9HU
Received 4 May 201731 Knole Road Dartford Kent DA1 3JN
Received 9 May 2017Lads Of The Village Elizabeth Street Stone Greenhithe Kent DA9 9AT
Received 10 May 2017Lads Of The Village Elizabeth Street Stone Greenhithe Kent DA9 9AT
Received 10 May 2017Dartford Grammar School For Boys West Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2HW
Received 9 May 201722 Beaton Close Greenhithe Kent DA9 9QN
Received 10 May 2017First, Second And Third Floors, 27 - 31 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DT
Received 10 May 201774 Devonshire Avenue Dartford DA1 3DW
Received 10 May 20178 Main Road Sutton At Hone DA4 9HA
Received 10 May 201727 Strickland Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JR
Received 10 May 201753 Lunedale Road Dartford Kent DA2 6LW
Received 10 May 201715 Heathclose Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 2PH
Received 10 May 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 10 May 201739 Swanscombe Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0BQ
Received 11 May 201784A St Albans Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TY
Received 11 May 2017Land North Of Railway Line And East Of Station Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 11 May 20171 Clayton Croft Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7AU
Received 11 May 20177 Silver Train Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 5QD
Received 11 May 2017Seeboard Land Rear Of Questor House Hawley Road Dartford Kent
Received 11 May 2017The Co-Operative Group 29 - 31 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AG
Received 12 May 201732 Broomhill Road Dartford Kent DA1 3HT
Received 12 May 201731 Attlee Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5DF
Received 12 May 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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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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