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.
5,841 approved · 897 refused · 332 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Longfield Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7LF
Received 22 Aug 2017Cob Tree Farm Darenth Hill Darenth Kent DA2 7QR
Received 22 Aug 2017Former Day Nursery St Marys Road Stone Kent DA9 9AG
Received 23 Aug 2017Station House Station Road Southfleet DA13 9PA
Received 23 Aug 20175 Fallowfield Bean Kent DA2 8BF
Received 23 Aug 20171 Keith Avenue Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HH
Received 23 Aug 201750 Great Queen Street Dartford Kent DA1 1TJ
Received 23 Aug 2017The Everglades Park Way Bexley Kent DA5 2JD
Received 24 Aug 201722 Strickland Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JR
Received 24 Aug 2017Fat Boys 95 101 Burnham Road Dartford Kent DA1 5AZ
Received 24 Aug 20174 Wolsey Crescent Stone Kent DA9 9TG
Received 24 Aug 2017Hook Place Farm Hook Green Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9NH
Received 24 Aug 2017Hook Place Farm Hook Green Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9NH
Received 24 Aug 2017Garage Rear Of 105 Burnham Road Dartford Kent DA1 5AZ
Received 25 Aug 2017Masonic Hall 71 West Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2HJ
Received 25 Aug 20173 Weird Wood Longfield Kent DA3 7HT
Received 29 Aug 201726 Baker Crescent Dartford Kent DA1 2NF
Received 29 Aug 201728 Childs Crescent Swanscombe Kent DA10 0EA
Received 29 Aug 2017Greenwood Park Darenth Road Dartford Kent DA1 1LY
Received 29 Aug 201738 The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YN
Received 29 Aug 2017Cambaling Park Way Bexley Kent DA5 2JD
Received 25 Aug 2017161 Coombfield Drive Darenth Kent DA2 7LF
Received 25 Aug 201738 The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YN
Received 29 Aug 2017Dartford Methodist Church Spital Street Dartford Kent DA1 2DR
Received 30 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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