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.
6,873 approved · 1,060 refused · 389 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
106 Wellcome Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JW
Received 26 Jun 2019Freegrove Red Street Southfleet Kent DA13 9QL
Received 26 Jun 201924 Princes Avenue Dartford Kent DA2 6NF
Received 26 Jun 201937 Birchwood Drive Wilmington Kent DA2 7NF
Received 26 Jun 201945 Rowan Crescent Dartford Kent DA1 2QX
Received 27 Jun 201970 Stonehill Woods Park Old London Road Upper Ruxley Sidcup Kent DA14 5FB
Received 26 Jun 201964 Stonehill Woods Park Old London Road Upper Ruxley Sidcup Kent DA14 5FB
Received 26 Jun 201980 Stonehill Woods Park Old London Road Upper Ruxley Sidcup Kent DA14 5FB
Received 26 Jun 201944 Spurrell Avenue Bexley Kent DA5 2HA
Received 25 Jun 201954 Carlton Avenue Horns Cross Greenhithe Kent DA9 9DR
Received 24 Jun 2019Heathside Nursery Leyton Cross Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7AN
Received 21 Jun 201932 Morland Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3BN
Received 25 Jun 2019Castle Hill South Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 25 Jun 2019Redundant Buildings Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 25 Jun 2019Third Floor Banks Place Market Place Dartford Kent DA1 1EX
Received 26 Jun 201913 & 15 Balmoral Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9EZ
Received 27 Jun 2019163 Dartford Road Dartford Kent DA1 3EW
Received 27 Jun 20194 Wood Close Bexley Kent DA5 2HX
Received 28 Jun 2019104 Trevithick Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5LJ
Received 28 Jun 201922 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HE
Received 28 Jun 2019Land Adjacent 188A Milton Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LX
Received 28 Jun 2019River Mill Primary School Central Road Dartford Kent DA1 5XR
Received 28 Jun 201960 Pentstemon Drive Swanscombe Kent DA10 0NJ
Received 1 Jul 201925 Brent Close Dartford Kent DA2 6DD
Received 1 Jul 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
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.
Check collection coverage