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.
6,299 approved · 980 refused · 355 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Sept 2014 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 29 Jun 2018165 - 173 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PB
Received 4 Jul 2018104 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QX
Received 4 Jul 2018Former Mabledon Hospital Site Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent
Received 2 Jul 20186 Cobham Close Greenhithe Kent DA9 9LB
Received 5 Jul 2018Sutton Place Cottage Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HB
Received 5 Jul 2018Land North Of Hedge Place Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 5 Jul 20188 Watling Street Dartford Kent DA1 1RF
Received 6 Jul 2018104 Wellcome Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JW
Received 6 Jul 201833 Darenth Park Avenue Darenth Kent DA2 6JN
Received 6 Jul 2018104 Wellcome Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JW
Received 6 Jul 2018224 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 6 Jul 2018Plot 9 Eclipse Park Sittingbourne Road North Maidstone Kent
Received 5 Jul 201897 Caspian Way Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LD
Received 6 Jul 201824 London Road Stone Kent DA2 6DJ
Received 6 Jul 2018Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 6 Jul 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 6 Jul 2018Dominos Pizza 12 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QD
Received 9 Jul 20186 Western Cross Close Greenhithe Kent DA9 9LT
Received 9 Jul 2018Eleazer Cottage Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 8DP
Received 9 Jul 201815 The Dell Bexley Kent DA5 2AG
Received 9 Jul 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 6 Jul 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 6 Jul 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 6 Jul 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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