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.
6,764 approved · 1,049 refused · 380 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Orchard Terrace Cotton Lane Stone Kent DA9 9AX
Received 4 Jan 2019Site At Junction Of King Edward Avenue West Hill Dartford Kent
Received 3 Jan 201912 Browning Road Dartford Kent DA1 5ET
Received 7 Jan 201928 Chastilian Road Dartford Kent DA1 3JJ
Received 7 Jan 2019Unit 1 Rennie Drive Plot 2 The Bridge Dartford Kent DA1 5FD
Received 7 Jan 201910 Mannock Road Dartford Kent DA1 5QT
Received 8 Jan 201955 Elm Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RT
Received 8 Jan 2019Unit 4 Twistleton Court Priory Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2EN
Received 8 Jan 2019Land Adj The Lodges (now Gantry Place) Cotton Lane Stone Kent
Received 9 Jan 2019St James Place Dartford Kent DA1 2ED
Received 9 Jan 2019Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 9 Jan 2019Land East Of 110-114 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 9 Jan 2019The Everglades Park Way Bexley Kent DA5 2JD
Received 9 Jan 2019The Manse Green Street Green Road Darenth DA2 7HT
Received 10 Jan 201936 Ash Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RL
Received 10 Jan 2019Rear Of 79 To 85 East Hill Dartford Kent DA1 1SN
Received 10 Jan 2019The Co-Operative Group 29 - 35 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AG
Received 10 Jan 201979 Bowmans Road Dartford Kent DA1 3QP
Received 10 Jan 2019Autumn Chance 9 Woodland Close Longfield Kent DA3 7HA
Received 10 Jan 2019Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 10 Jan 2019Land Adj The Lodges (now Gantry Place) Cotton Lane Stone Kent
Received 9 Jan 201926 Latham Close Darenth Kent DA2 6NS
Received 10 Jan 20191 Landale Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 2QB
Received 11 Jan 201926 Nelson Road Dartford Kent DA1 3EJ
Received 11 Jan 2019Records 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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