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.
5,729 approved · 883 refused · 326 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
40 Alfred Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SQ
Received 5 Jun 2017Stone Pavilion Hayes Road Horns Cross Greenhithe Kent
Received 6 Jun 20178 Bradbrook Drive Longfield Kent DA3 7BF
Received 6 Jun 201715 Sutherland Close Stone Kent DA9 9QJ
Received 6 Jun 201719 Sweyne Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0JA
Received 6 Jun 2017Millbrook Garden Centre Station Road Southfleet DA13 9PA
Received 6 Jun 2017Ground Floor 55 High Street Dartford DA1 1DS
Received 7 Jun 2017Greenwood Manor Rowhill Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7QQ
Received 7 Jun 2017Temple Hill County Primary Infants School St Edmunds Road Dartford Kent DA1 5ND
Received 7 Jun 20172 Bankside Close Bexley Kent DA5 2HE
Received 8 Jun 201717 Lawrence Hill Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AG
Received 8 Jun 201733 Baldwyns Park Bexley Kent
Received 8 Jun 2017Radha Krishna Pencroft Drive Dartford Kent DA1 2PB
Received 9 Jun 201752 Chestnut Grove Wilmington Kent DA2 7PG
Received 9 Jun 2017Millbrook Garden Centre Station Road Southfleet DA13 9PA
Received 9 Jun 201755 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DS
Received 9 Jun 201767 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA5 2EB
Received 9 Jun 201750 Fairlight Cross Longfield Kent DA3 7JD
Received 9 Jun 2017Former Empire Sports Ground South Of Knockhall Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 12 Jun 2017Phase 2 Land At St Clements Block G
Received 8 Jun 2017Glow Bluewater
Received 8 Jun 201726 Landale Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 2QB
Received 12 Jun 201730 St Albans Road Dartford DA1 1TE
Received 12 Jun 201730 St Albans Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TE
Received 13 Jun 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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