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.
6,338 approved · 985 refused · 355 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Major Space Unit 8 Bluewater Shopping Centre
Received 5 Sept 201815 Tredegar Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7AY
Received 6 Sept 2018Hopeleigh Cottage Arnolds Lane Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HE
Received 7 Sept 201874 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA5 2EE
Received 7 Sept 2018Nandos Unit EVL016 Wintergarden Bluewater Greenhithe Kent DA9 9SF
Received 7 Sept 201825 Denver Road Dartford Kent DA1 3LA
Received 7 Sept 2018North Kent College Oakfield Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2JT
Received 7 Sept 201811 The Dell Bexley Kent DA5 2AG
Received 10 Sept 2018120 Coombfield Drive Darenth Kent DA2 7LH
Received 10 Sept 201864 Water Mill Way Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9BE
Received 10 Sept 20183 Andrews Place Dartford Kent DA2 7WD
Received 11 Sept 20188 Keith Avenue Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HH
Received 11 Sept 20187 Parsons Close Longfield Kent DA3 7BB
Received 12 Sept 201828 Childs Crescent Swanscombe Kent DA10 0EA
Received 12 Sept 2018The Pump House 1 Fred Mead Southfleet Kent DA13 9PQ
Received 7 Sept 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 7 Sept 2018Northview Barn Clement Street Swanley Kent BR8 7PQ
Received 12 Sept 20189 Salmon Road Dartford Kent DA1 5JB
Received 12 Sept 2018The Bridge Plot 4 Rennie Drive Dartford Kent
Received 12 Sept 2018The Bridge Plot 4 Rennie Drive Dartford Kent
Received 12 Sept 2018Russells Yard Whitehill Road Southfleet Kent
Received 12 Sept 2018189 Hawley Road Dartford DA1 1PB
Received 13 Sept 201815 Pentstemon Drive Swanscombe Kent DA10 0ND
Received 13 Sept 20182nd Floor Instone House Instone Road Dartford Kent
Received 13 Sept 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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