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.
5,817 approved · 893 refused · 331 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bean Village Surgery High Street Bean Kent DA2 8BS
Received 2 Aug 2017Cedar House 23 Coniston Close Dartford Kent DA1 2TY
Received 2 Aug 20174 Chastilian Road Dartford Kent DA1 3JJ
Received 2 Aug 20176 Brent Close Dartford Kent DA2 6DB
Received 2 Aug 201716 High Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7BN
Received 2 Aug 2017Former Tylers Site Brent Way Dartford Kent
Received 2 Aug 2017Land West Of Springhead Road Northfleet
Received 1 Aug 20178 Woodlands Park Bexley Kent DA5 2EL
Received 2 Aug 2017Beesfield Gorsewood Road Longfield Kent
Received 2 Aug 20173 Studley Crescent Longfield Kent DA3 7JL
Received 7 Aug 2017The Old Farm House St Margarets Road Darenth DA4 9LB
Received 7 Aug 2017No Frills Brewery 50 Wakefield Road (Rear Of 20 To 20A Knockhall Road) Greenhithe Kent
Received 7 Aug 2017Millbrook Garden Centre Station Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PA
Received 7 Aug 201736 Shearwater Longfield Kent DA3 7NL
Received 7 Aug 201744 The Old Yews Longfield Kent DA3 7JS
Received 7 Aug 2017Craylands Primary School Craylands Lane Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LP
Received 7 Aug 20179 Ekman Close Weldon Ebbsfleet Valley Kent DA10 1AR
Received 7 Aug 2017Springhead Bridge Link Northfleet Kent DA11 8FJ
Received 7 Aug 2017Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 8 Aug 2017Allerton Hawley Road Hawley Kent DA2 7RB
Received 8 Aug 20174 Dawes Close Stone Kent DA9 9RA
Received 9 Aug 201781 Highfield Road Dartford Kent DA1 2JU
Received 9 Aug 201720 North Road Dartford Kent DA1 3NA
Received 9 Aug 2017Burnt Oak House Rowhill Road Wilmington DA2 7QQ
Received 9 Aug 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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