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.
6,776 approved · 1,050 refused · 382 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adj The Lodges (now Gantry Place) Cotton Lane Stone Kent
Received 23 Jan 2019Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 22 Jan 2019115 Milton Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LS
Received 22 Jan 2019Unit 4 Twistleton Court Priory Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2EN
Received 23 Jan 2019Beacon Hill Rowhill Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7QG
Received 23 Jan 2019Eebs Stables Trollingdown Hill Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 6NR
Received 23 Jan 2019447 Princes Road Dartford Kent DA1 1RB
Received 23 Jan 201929 Steele Avenue Greenhithe Kent DA9 9PQ
Received 24 Jan 2019Homefield Farm Homefield Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9JA
Received 24 Jan 20192 Cullum Cottages Southfleet Road Bean Kent DA2 8AN
Received 24 Jan 201937 Clarendon Gardens Dartford Kent DA2 6EY
Received 24 Jan 2019115 Milton Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LS
Received 24 Jan 201923 Heathclose Road Dartford Kent DA1 2PU
Received 24 Jan 2019Baynes House 5A Market Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DB
Received 24 Jan 2019Baynes House 5A Market Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DB
Received 24 Jan 201915 Abbey Drive Dartford Kent DA2 7WP
Received 25 Jan 2019Land To The East Of Central Road Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 25 Jan 2019Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Received 25 Jan 201954 The Green Darenth Kent DA2 6JT
Received 28 Jan 201977 Darenth Park Avenue Darenth Kent DA2 6LX
Received 28 Jan 20192 Farm Cottages Common Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7DQ
Received 28 Jan 201917 Spurrell Avenue Bexley Kent DA5 2HA
Received 28 Jan 201923 Oakfield Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2SN
Received 25 Jan 20199 Garrow Longfield Kent DA3 7JN
Received 28 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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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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