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.
5,846 approved · 901 refused · 332 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Jubilee Pavilion Waller Park Wood Lane Darenth Kent DA2 7LR
Received 30 Aug 2017Waller Park Wood Lane Darenth Kent
Received 30 Aug 20171 Oakwood Close Dartford Kent DA1 1YU
Received 31 Aug 2017Bracton Centre Bracton Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7AF
Received 31 Aug 2017Rosslyn Pescot Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7NA
Received 31 Aug 2017Homefield Farm Homefield Road Sutton At Hone DA4 9JA
Received 31 Aug 2017Turnagain Croft Hook Green Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7AJ
Received 31 Aug 201715 Nuthatch Longfield Kent DA3 7NS
Received 30 Aug 201736 Stonehill Woods Park Old London Road Upper Ruxley Sidcup Kent DA14 5AS
Received 30 Aug 201753 Pincroft Wood Longfield Kent DA3 7HB
Received 29 Aug 201744 Spurrell Avenue Bexley Kent DA5 2HA
Received 31 Aug 201779 Spurrell Avenue Bexley Kent DA5 2EX
Received 31 Aug 201732 Chestnut Grove Wilmington Kent DA2 7PG
Received 31 Aug 2017144 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 30 Aug 2017153 & 155 Burnham Road Dartford Kent DA1 5AU
Received 31 Aug 2017Abbott Murex Site And Part Mill Pond Land To South Lower Hythe Street Dartford Kent
Received 31 Aug 201732 James Road Dartford Kent DA1 3NF
Received 1 Sept 2017Between 37A And 45 High Street Greenhithe Kent DA9 9NL
Received 1 Sept 201772 Windsor Drive Dartford Kent DA1 3HN
Received 1 Sept 2017142 Heath Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2TW
Received 1 Sept 2017West Oak 1 The Close Longfield Kent DA3 7JA
Received 4 Sept 2017Area Of Service Yard 10 The Village (Adjacent To Red Car Park) Bluewater Shopping Centre
Received 29 Aug 201728 Pincroft Wood Longfield Kent DA3 7HB
Received 29 Aug 201719 Old Bexley Lane Bexley Kent DA5 2BL
Received 1 Sept 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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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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