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.
5,715 approved · 876 refused · 326 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land North Of Bob Dunn Way Dartford Kent
Received 24 May 20174 Barnfield Close Horns Cross Greenhithe Kent DA9 9JJ
Received 24 May 2017Highfield Farm Betsham Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PD
Received 24 May 20172 Stafford Close Stone Greenhithe Kent DA9 9QQ
Received 25 May 2017Land Adjacent 63 To 79 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent
Received 25 May 2017Mill Pond Development Site Mill Pond Road Dartford Kent DA1 1BW
Received 25 May 201723 Coombfield Drive Darenth Kent DA2 7LE
Received 26 May 201734 Wentworth Drive Dartford Kent DA1 3NG
Received 26 May 2017Phase 2 Land At St Clements Block G
Received 26 May 2017The Bridge Plot 34 Rennie Drive Dartford Kent
Received 26 May 2017204 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA2 7PB
Received 26 May 20171 Oakwood Close Dartford Kent DA1 1YU
Received 30 May 20173 The Hollies Chapel Drive Dartford DA2 6FN
Received 30 May 20176 Wheatley Close Stone Kent DA9 9QD
Received 26 May 2017Ivy House Highcross Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PH
Received 26 May 2017West Lodge Station Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PA
Received 26 May 20172 Ingram Road Dartford Kent DA1 1JL
Received 26 May 20179 Sullivan Close Dartford Kent DA1 2NJ
Received 26 May 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 30 May 2017Millbrook Garden Centre Station Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PA
Received 30 May 2017Land Adjacent Sutton Manor Nursery Dartford Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HY
Received 30 May 2017132 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PT
Received 30 May 201768 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA5 2EE
Received 31 May 2017Former Stonehouse Hospital Site Cotton Lane Stone Kent DA2 6AU
Received 31 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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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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