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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.
6,142 approved · 951 refused · 348 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
44 Priory Hill Dartford DA1 2BH
Received 2 Feb 2018Land Rear Questor House Hawley Road Dartford Kent
Received 2 Feb 2018Land South Of Coleridge Road And Land East Of Shaftsbury Lane Dartford Kent
Received 2 Feb 201812 Havelock Road Dartford Kent DA1 3HX
Received 5 Feb 2018236 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 5 Feb 201883 Chestnut Grove Wilmington Kent DA2 7PQ
Received 1 Feb 20185 Barnard Court Osbourne Road Dartford Kent DA2 6RX
Received 5 Feb 2018Waitrose Supermarket 63 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QA
Received 6 Feb 20181 Colney Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TX
Received 6 Feb 2018Land At London Road And West Of Craylands Lane Craylands Lane Swanscombe Kent
Received 5 Feb 201832 Mounts Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9LZ
Received 6 Feb 201820 Castle Street Stone Kent DA9 9AB
Received 6 Feb 201828 Childs Crescent Swanscombe Kent DA10 0EA
Received 6 Feb 201839 Hill House Road Dartford Kent DA2 6HG
Received 6 Feb 201888 Littlebrook Manor Way Dartford Kent DA1 5EF
Received 6 Feb 201842 Oakfield Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2SY
Received 6 Feb 2018Former Fox And Hounds Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent
Received 6 Feb 2018Hazelwood Rowhill Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7QQ
Received 7 Feb 20189 Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QT
Received 7 Feb 201826 Kingsley Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5DH
Received 7 Feb 20187 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HF
Received 7 Feb 2018107 Priory Road Dartford Kent DA1 2BN
Received 7 Feb 201843 Gerdview Drive Wilmington Kent DA2 7BS
Received 7 Feb 2018107 Priory Road Dartford Kent DA1 2BN
Received 7 Feb 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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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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