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.
5,893 approved · 907 refused · 334 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
140 Watling Street Stone Kent DA2 6AF
Received 16 Oct 201712 Birch Close Longfield Kent DA3 7LH
Received 16 Oct 2017204 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA2 7PB
Received 17 Oct 201729 Walnut Tree Avenue Wilmington Kent DA1 1LJ
Received 17 Oct 201752 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HE
Received 17 Oct 2017Office Regency Mount Barn End Lane Wilmington Kent
Received 17 Oct 2017Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 17 Oct 2017Kent Football Club Rear Of Glentworth Club Lowfield Street Dartford DA1 1JB
Received 17 Oct 20173 Meldon View Dartford Kent DA1 5SX
Received 17 Oct 2017Ivy House Highcross Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9PH
Received 18 Oct 201791 -93 Church Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0HE
Received 18 Oct 20171 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA5 2EB
Received 18 Oct 20171 Acworth Place Dartford Road Dartford Kent DA1 3EU
Received 18 Oct 2017122 Stanhope Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AZ
Received 18 Oct 2017Temple Hill County Primary Infants School St Edmunds Road Dartford Kent DA1 5ND
Received 18 Oct 2017Colt Lodge 9 New Barn Road Southfleet Kent DA3 7LQ
Received 18 Oct 2017170 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 19 Oct 2017Former Paper Mill - Northern Phase 2 Lawson Road Dartford Kent DA1 5BP
Received 19 Oct 2017Kent Football Club Rear Of Glentworth Club Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1JB
Received 17 Oct 201747 Hedge Place Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9JY
Received 19 Oct 2017Cedar Lodge 1 The Lodges Cotton Lane Stone Kent DA9 9BF
Received 19 Oct 2017The Pier Ingress Site Greenhithe
Received 19 Oct 201755A The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YD
Received 20 Oct 201715 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QN
Received 20 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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