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.
6,198 approved · 959 refused · 349 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Sept 2014 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Miskin Road Dartford Kent DA1 2LS
Received 21 Mar 201884A St Albans Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TY
Received 22 Mar 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 21 Mar 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 21 Mar 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 22 Mar 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 21 Mar 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 21 Mar 2018No Frills Brewery 50 Wakefield Road (Rear Of 20 To 20A Knockhall Road) Greenhithe Kent
Received 22 Mar 201816 Wellington Road Dartford Kent DA1 3EH
Received 22 Mar 2018Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 22 Mar 2018Plot 3B Fawkes Avenue Questor Wilmington Kent
Received 23 Mar 2018Plot 2 Questor 11 Applegarth Drive Questor Wilmington Kent DA1 1JD
Received 23 Mar 201826 Myrtle Place Dartford Kent DA2 6ER
Received 23 Mar 201830 Woodlands Park Bexley Kent DA5 2EL
Received 23 Mar 20189 Alfan Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7HB
Received 26 Mar 201873 Bowmans Road Dartford Kent DA1 3QP
Received 26 Mar 201890 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QS
Received 26 Mar 2018Mansion House Acacia Hall High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DJ
Received 26 Mar 201814 Broad Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7AG
Received 27 Mar 20187 Rectory Meadow Southfleet Kent DA13 9NY
Received 27 Mar 201831 Perry Grove Dartford Kent DA1 5NH
Received 27 Mar 2018Riverside Energy Park Belvedere
Received 27 Mar 2018137 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QU
Received 28 Mar 2018McDonalds 476 Princes Road Dartford Kent DA1 1YT
Received 28 Mar 2018Records 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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