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.
5,775 approved · 886 refused · 329 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Priory Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2BH
Received 3 Jul 2017Adjacent 1 North Road Dartford Kent DA1 3LS
Received 29 Jun 2017Adjacent 1 North Road Dartford Kent DA1 3LS
Received 29 Jun 201790 Shepherds Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2NN
Received 3 Jul 2017Greenwood Manor Rowhill Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7QQ
Received 4 Jul 20171 Hart Shaw Longfield Kent DA3 7JH
Received 4 Jul 20175 Greenways Longfield Kent DA3 7HL
Received 4 Jul 201715 Couzins Walk Dartford Kent DA1 5GD
Received 5 Jul 2017118 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QX
Received 5 Jul 201739 Stanham Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AN
Received 6 Jul 2017Lakeview West Galleon Boulevard Crossways Business Park Dartford Kent DA2 6QE
Received 5 Jul 2017The Bridge Plot 36 Rennie Drive Dartford Kent
Received 6 Jul 2017Zone B Former Littlebrook Business Centre Shield Road Dartford Kent
Received 6 Jul 201733 Littlebrook Manor Way Dartford Kent DA1 5DX
Received 6 Jul 201748 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HE
Received 5 Jul 201728 Lunedale Road Dartford Kent DA2 6LN
Received 5 Jul 2017140 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 5 Jul 2017Lloyds Bank 4 - 6 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1BY
Received 6 Jul 20178 Bradbrook Drive Longfield Kent DA3 7BF
Received 6 Jul 2017238 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 5 Jul 2017Birchwood Park Golf Centre Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HJ
Received 6 Jul 20171A, 1B, 1C Knockhall Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9HL
Received 7 Jul 2017West Village & Service Yards 5, 8 And 12 Bluewater
Received 7 Jul 201718 Priory Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 2BE
Received 7 Jul 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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