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.
6,255 approved · 974 refused · 353 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Specsavers 54 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DE
Received 6 Apr 20182 Oldfield Place Dartford Kent DA1 5WJ
Received 6 Apr 2018Land Off Albion Road Dartford Kent
Received 9 Apr 201891 - 95 Church Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 9 Apr 20188 Mead Crescent Dartford Kent DA1 2SH
Received 9 Apr 201841 Shepherds Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2NL
Received 9 Apr 2018Highlands And The Chestnuts Pencroft Drive Dartford Kent
Received 5 Apr 201850 Waltham Close Dartford Kent DA1 3LT
Received 5 Apr 201847 Lewis Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0JH
Received 5 Apr 2018107 Priory Road Dartford Kent DA1 2BN
Received 4 Apr 201830 Priory Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2BH
Received 6 Apr 2018Land At Coldharbour Road Northfleet
Received 6 Apr 2018137 Lansbury Crescent Dartford Kent DA1 5DQ
Received 6 Apr 201846 Ladywood Road Darenth Kent DA2 7LL
Received 9 Apr 20185 College Place Greenhithe Kent DA9 9GF
Received 9 Apr 2018Land At Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Received 9 Apr 201875 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HQ
Received 9 Apr 201824 St Marys Way Longfield Kent DA3 7PD
Received 10 Apr 201837 Eglinton Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0HS
Received 10 Apr 2018161 Shepherds Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2PG
Received 10 Apr 20186 Wheatley Close Stone Kent DA9 9QD
Received 5 Apr 2018Northern Gateway East And Mill Pond Sites (GlaxoSmithKline - Eastern Parcel) Bounded By Hythe Street, Mill Pond Road, Temple Hill And Central Road Dartford
Received 3 Apr 201828 Larch Road Dartford Kent DA1 2LF
Received 10 Apr 2018Asda Stores Ltd Prologis Warehouse Sandpit Road Dartford Kent DA1 5BU
Received 11 Apr 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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