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.
5,854 approved · 902 refused · 333 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
30 Stanham Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AN
Received 4 Sept 201734 Squires Way Wilmington Kent DA2 7NW
Received 4 Sept 2017Castle Hill Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 29 Aug 2017North Side Of Clement Street Opp North View Cottages Swanley Kent
Received 5 Sept 2017Northern Gateway East And Mill Pond Sites (GlaxoSmithKline - Eastern Parcel) Bounded By Hythe Street, Mill Pond Road, Temple Hill And Central Road Dartford
Received 5 Sept 20179 Studley Crescent Longfield Kent DA3 7JL
Received 5 Sept 2017The Chapel Constance Grove Dartford DA1 2GA
Received 5 Sept 2017Land Adjacent 182 London Road Greenhithe DA9 9JF
Received 6 Sept 201754 Ashen Drive Dartford Kent DA1 3LU
Received 4 Sept 2017Former Croxton And Garry Site Tiltman Avenue Swanscombe Kent
Received 5 Sept 2017Warwick House Park Corner Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9LN
Received 6 Sept 201721A Marlborough Road Dartford Kent DA1 3EL
Received 7 Sept 201739 Henderson Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5LF
Received 7 Sept 201739 Henderson Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5LF
Received 7 Sept 201714 Junction Road Dartford Kent DA1 2BA
Received 7 Sept 201734 Tennyson Road Dartford Kent DA1 5DJ
Received 8 Sept 2017Adjacent 1 North Road Dartford Kent DA1 3LS
Received 8 Sept 201768 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 8 Sept 201774 Howard Road Dartford Kent DA1 1XH
Received 8 Sept 201751 Alfred Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SG
Received 11 Sept 2017Plot 2 The Bridge Littlebrook Manor Way Dartford Kent
Received 11 Sept 2017Parkland Adjacent To Church And Bullace Lane Dartford
Received 11 Sept 2017291 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1LB
Received 11 Sept 2017Holly Cottage 39 Pincroft Wood Longfield Kent DA3 7HB
Received 11 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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