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.
5,890 approved · 907 refused · 334 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 Hill House Road Dartford Kent DA2 6HQ
Received 9 Oct 2017164 Wilmot Road Dartford Kent DA1 3BS
Received 9 Oct 201736 Willow Road Dartford Kent DA1 2QQ
Received 9 Oct 201720 Devonshire Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3DW
Received 10 Oct 2017Craylands Primary School Craylands Lane Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LP
Received 9 Oct 201733 Essex Road Dartford Kent DA1 2AU
Received 11 Oct 20171 Warner House Cotton Lane Stone Kent DA9 9BF
Received 11 Oct 201711 Water Mill Way Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9BB
Received 11 Oct 20176 Hope Cottages Bean Lane Bean Kent DA2 8AZ
Received 11 Oct 20176 Hope Cottages Bean Lane Bean Kent DA2 8AZ
Received 11 Oct 201731 Water Mill Way Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9BB
Received 12 Oct 2017The Greyhound 58 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9EU
Received 13 Oct 201720 - 26 High Street Greenhithe Kent DA9 9NN
Received 13 Oct 2017Northfleet West Sub Station Simmons Road Weldon Ebbsfleet Valley Kent
Received 13 Oct 2017Northfleet West Sub Station Simmons Road Weldon Ebbsfleet Valley Kent
Received 13 Oct 201724 Willow Road Dartford Kent DA1 2QQ
Received 16 Oct 20174 Sycamore Road Dartford Kent DA1 2QS
Received 16 Oct 201773 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HQ
Received 16 Oct 201773 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HQ
Received 16 Oct 201773 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HQ
Received 16 Oct 20171 Plantation Close Horns Cross Greenhithe Kent DA9 9JA
Received 16 Oct 2017The Greyhound 58 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9EU
Received 13 Oct 2017Golf Course Princes Park Grassbanks Dartford Kent DA1 1LZ
Received 16 Oct 2017Adjacent 25 Beech Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RG
Received 16 Oct 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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