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.
6,706 approved · 1,041 refused · 376 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Sept 2014 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear Of Merryweather Close Dartford Kent
Received 18 Dec 201879 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HQ
Received 18 Dec 20188 Allendale Close Dartford Kent DA2 6JP
Received 18 Dec 201878 Pentstemon Drive Swanscombe Kent DA10 0NJ
Received 19 Dec 2018447 Princes Road Dartford Kent DA1 1RB
Received 19 Dec 20186 Rectory Meadow Southfleet Kent DA13 9NY
Received 19 Dec 2018Blackshole Farm Watling Street Dartford Kent DA2 8DE
Received 19 Dec 20187 Priory Close Dartford Kent DA1 2JF
Received 19 Dec 201881 North Road Dartford Kent DA1 3ND
Received 19 Dec 2018Acacia Hall High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DJ
Received 29 Nov 201818 South View Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7BL
Received 20 Dec 20186 Warren Road Wilmington Kent DA1 1PH
Received 20 Dec 2018Land Adj The Lodges (now Gantry Place) Cotton Lane Stone Kent
Received 20 Dec 2018Kent Cottage Stock Lane Wilmington Kent
Received 21 Dec 2018Caravan Site Hillside Farm Darenth Hill Darenth Kent
Received 21 Dec 201828 Wilmot Road Dartford Kent DA1 3BA
Received 21 Dec 2018Dale Villa Dale Road Southfleet Kent DA13 9NX
Received 24 Dec 20184 Fairway Drive Dartford Kent DA2 6AR
Received 24 Dec 201816 Ferndene Longfield Kent DA3 7HJ
Received 24 Dec 2018Longreach Sewage Treatment Works Marsh Street Dartford Kent DA1 5PP
Received 21 Dec 2018Cob Tree Farm Darenth Hill Darenth Kent DA2 7QR
Received 24 Dec 20185 Ekman Close Weldon Ebbsfleet Valley Kent DA10 1AR
Received 21 Dec 201820 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1HD
Received 24 Dec 2018Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 24 Dec 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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