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.
6,383 approved · 992 refused · 358 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cheers Dental Practice 23 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AG
Received 8 Nov 2018Hill View Dartford DA1 5UT
Received 15 Nov 2018Land North Of Hedge Place Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 15 Nov 2018Coachfields Northfleet Green Southfleet Kent
Received 14 Nov 2018Castle Hill South Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 15 Nov 2018Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 15 Nov 2018Land To The East Of Central Road Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 15 Nov 2018Warner House Cotton Lane Stone Kent
Received 16 Nov 2018Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 15 Nov 20183 Sackville Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7EB
Received 19 Nov 20182 The Green Darenth Kent DA2 6JR
Received 19 Nov 2018The Orange Tree 6 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1NR
Received 19 Nov 201828 Studley Crescent Longfield Kent DA3 7JL
Received 19 Nov 201837 Leyton Cross Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7AW
Received 19 Nov 201825 Darenth Park Avenue Darenth Kent DA2 6JN
Received 19 Nov 201816A Swaisland Road Dartford Kent DA1 3DA
Received 19 Nov 201814 Garrow Longfield Kent DA3 7JN
Received 20 Nov 2018Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 19 Nov 201855 Woodlands Park Bexley Kent DA5 2EN
Received 20 Nov 201836 Maryfield Close Bexley Kent DA5 2HY
Received 21 Nov 201846 Gore Road Darenth Kent DA2 6LT
Received 21 Nov 2018Yoomi Ltd 189 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PB
Received 21 Aug 2018Yoomi Ltd 189 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PB
Received 21 Aug 20188 The Oaks Stone Kent DA2 6PF
Received 23 Nov 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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