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.
6,768 approved · 1,049 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 1 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 11 Jan 20198 Stanham Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AW
Received 11 Jan 2019175 Shepherds Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2PR
Received 14 Jan 201912 Chalet Close Bexley Kent DA5 2EY
Received 14 Jan 2019Europa Albion Road Dartford Kent DA1 5PZ
Received 14 Jan 201927 - 31 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1EW
Received 14 Jan 2019Plot 3B Fawkes Avenue Questor Wilmington Kent
Received 14 Jan 2019Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 11 Jan 2019Phases 1-3 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 11 Jan 201963 Red Lodge Road Bexley Kent DA5 2JP
Received 15 Jan 2019Zone B Prologis Park Shield Road Dartford Kent
Received 15 Jan 20193 Birchwood Drive Wilmington Kent DA2 7NE
Received 15 Jan 2019Phase 1 And 3B Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 11 Jan 2019Plot 2 And 3B Fawkes Avenue Questor Wilmington Kent
Received 15 Jan 201942 Broomhill Road Dartford Kent DA1 3HT
Received 14 Jan 2019Net Church 30 Spital Street Dartford Kent DA1 2DL
Received 15 Jan 2019Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Received 15 Jan 2019Former Empire Sports Ground South Of Knockhall Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 15 Jan 2019Former Empire Sports Ground South Of Knockhall Road Greenhithe
Received 15 Jan 20192 Woodside Cottages Darenth Wood Road Darenth Kent DA2 8AB
Received 16 Jan 2019Unit 1 Rennie Drive Dartford DA1 5PR
Received 16 Jan 201930 Havelock Road Dartford Kent DA1 3HX
Received 16 Jan 2019Fernlea Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7AS
Received 16 Jan 2019Tudor Lodge New Barn Road Southfleet DA3 7LT
Received 16 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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