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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.
6,854 approved · 1,058 refused · 385 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Sept 2014 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 Wilmot Road Dartford Kent DA1 3BA
Received 10 May 2019Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Received 13 May 2019Waysmeet 1 Green Street Green Road Dartford DA1 1QE
Received 13 May 2019Allerloo Lodge Oakfield Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2TF
Received 14 May 20196 Eleanor Close Dartford Kent DA1 5GQ
Received 14 May 201914 Saxon Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SH
Received 13 May 2019Swanscombe Health Centre Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0BF
Received 14 May 2019Ebbsfleet Bounded By A2, Southfleet Road, Springhead Road, North Kent Rail Line Excluding Blue Lake, Springhead Enterprise Park And CTRL Alignment, Swanscombe/Northfleet
Received 13 May 20191 Studley Crescent Longfield Kent DA3 7JL
Received 14 May 201940 Roseberry Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 2NX
Received 14 May 2019Lugano Stock Lane Wilmington Kent DA2 7BY
Received 15 May 201957 Lonsdale Crescent Darenth Kent DA2 6LQ
Received 15 May 2019Land Adjacent To And 49A Leyton Cross Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7AW
Received 15 May 2019Sher-e-bangla 33 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QD
Received 15 May 2019199 Coombfield Drive Darenth Kent DA2 7LF
Received 16 May 2019Plot 2 Questor 11 Applegarth Drive Questor Wilmington Kent DA1 1JD
Received 16 May 2019Plot 3B Fawkes Avenue Questor Wilmington Kent
Received 16 May 201939 Caspian Way Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LB
Received 16 May 201914 Birchwood Drive Wilmington Kent DA2 7NE
Received 16 May 20192 Monks Orchard Wilmington Kent DA1 2TB
Received 17 May 2019The Nursery Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 8DP
Received 17 May 2019Rhode Farm New Barn Road Longfield Kent DA3 7LQ
Received 17 May 201939 Darenth Park Avenue Darenth Kent DA2 6LX
Received 20 May 2019Thornfield Arnolds Lane Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HE
Received 20 May 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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