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.
5,954 approved · 912 refused · 335 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 13 Dec 2017Car Park Adj 67 The Green And 1-4 St Margarets Close Darenth Kent
Received 13 Dec 2017Highway Verge Outside Castle Farm Green Street Green Road Longfield Kent
Received 13 Dec 201785 Darenth Park Avenue Darenth Kent DA2 6LX
Received 13 Dec 2017165 - 173 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PB
Received 13 Dec 201712 Chave Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7ED
Received 13 Dec 201753 Stanham Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AN
Received 14 Dec 201792 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 14 Dec 201734 Hartley Road Longfield Kent DA3 7PP
Received 14 Dec 201783 Water Mill Way Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9BE
Received 14 Dec 2017Joyce Green Quarry Joyce Green Lane Dartford Kent
Received 1 Dec 2017Land South Of St Marys Road Stone Kent DA9 9AG
Received 15 Dec 2017Abbott Murex Site And Part Mill Pond Land To South Lower Hythe Street Dartford Kent
Received 15 Dec 201760-62 London Road Stone Kent DA2 6AN
Received 18 Dec 2017Along Part Of Sandringham Drive Dartford Kent
Received 18 Dec 201797 Caspian Way Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LD
Received 18 Dec 2017The Bridge Development Bob Dunn Way Dartford Kent
Received 18 Dec 2017Nationwide 7 - 9 Hythe Street Dartford Kent DA1 1BE
Received 18 Dec 201798 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 19 Dec 2017168 Shepherds Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2PQ
Received 19 Dec 2017St Michaels Church Church Hill Wilmington Kent DA2 7EH
Received 19 Dec 2017Land Fronting 1 To 22 Coleridge Road Dartford Kent
Received 19 Dec 2017Hulsewood Cottage Common Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7DB
Received 19 Dec 20174 Curates Walk Wilmington Kent DA2 7BJ
Received 19 Dec 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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