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.
6,323 approved · 983 refused · 355 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
57 Squires Way Wilmington Kent DA2 7NN
Received 8 Aug 201895 Brent Lane Dartford Kent DA1 1QT
Received 8 Aug 201823 Kingsley Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5DH
Received 8 Aug 201889 Shepherds Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2PA
Received 9 Aug 2018Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 9 Aug 2018522 Princes Road Dartford Kent DA2 6NQ
Received 10 Aug 201839 Dene Road Dartford Kent DA1 1LX
Received 10 Aug 201833 Carrington Road Dartford Kent DA1 1XN
Received 13 Aug 201864 Olive Road Dartford Kent DA1 2QU
Received 13 Aug 2018Land Adjacent 116 Priory Road Dartford Kent
Received 13 Aug 2018Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 10 Aug 2018Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 10 Aug 2018Thurrock Flexible Generation Plant
Received 10 Aug 2018The Wharf Galleon Boulevard Crossways Business Park Dartford Kent DA2 6QE
Received 13 Aug 2018135 Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7PQ
Received 14 Aug 2018The Royal Oak School Lane Bean Kent DA2 8AL
Received 14 Aug 2018Creswick Nurseries Dartford Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HY
Received 14 Aug 2018St Marys Church Hall Church Hill Stone Kent DA9 9BP
Received 14 Aug 2018Land At Northern Gateway-eastern Parcel
Received 14 Aug 20184 Orchard Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 2PP
Received 14 Aug 201821 Devonshire Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3DN
Received 14 Aug 20185 Eskdale Close Darenth Kent DA2 6LA
Received 14 Aug 2018Land At Northern Gateway-eastern Parcel
Received 15 Aug 20182 Murray Drive Stone Kent DA2 6FS
Received 15 Aug 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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