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.
6,834 approved · 1,054 refused · 385 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Wallis Close Wilmington Kent DA2 7BE
Received 5 Apr 20193 London Road Stone Kent DA2 6DL
Received 5 Apr 201914 Rayford Close Dartford Kent DA1 3AJ
Received 5 Apr 2019Lugano Stock Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7BY
Received 8 Apr 20192 Meadow Walk Wilmington Kent DA2 7BP
Received 8 Apr 2019Bellevue Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7PW
Received 8 Apr 20193 Junction Road Dartford Kent DA1 2BA
Received 8 Apr 2019Land North Of Hedge Place Road Greenhithe Kent
Received 8 Apr 201955 Burnham Road Dartford Kent DA1 5AY
Received 8 Apr 20192 Oakfield Park Road Wilmington Kent DA1 2ST
Received 8 Apr 2019Former Mabledon Hospital Site Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent
Received 8 Apr 20196 St Peters Close Swanscombe Kent DA10 0BD
Received 8 Apr 20197 Knoxfield Caravan Park Darenth Wood Road Darenth Kent DA2 8AA
Received 9 Apr 20195 Rectory Meadow Southfleet Kent DA13 9NY
Received 9 Apr 201923 Church Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0HG
Received 9 Apr 2019Instone House Instone Road Dartford DA1 2AG
Received 9 Apr 20199 Lawrence Hill Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AG
Received 10 Apr 20192 The Green Darenth Kent DA2 6JR
Received 10 Apr 20195 Broomwood Close Bexley Kent DA5 2DG
Received 9 Apr 2019Hawley Pavillion Hawley Road Hawley Kent DA2 7RB
Received 9 Apr 2019Land At St Clements Way
Received 10 Apr 2019Longreach Sewage Treatment Works Marsh Street Dartford Kent DA1 5PP
Received 10 Apr 2019Russells Yard Whitehill Road Southfleet Kent
Received 10 Apr 2019Former Mabledon Hospital Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent
Received 8 Apr 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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