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.
6,892 approved · 1,065 refused · 390 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Northern Gateway North Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Eastern Quarry Watling Street Swanscombe Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Zone B Prologis Park Shield Road Dartford Kent
Received 13 Aug 2019Dartford Golf Club Heath Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2TN
Received 14 Aug 201923 Festival Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7HR
Received 14 Aug 2019Craylands Primary School Craylands Lane Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LP
Received 14 Aug 2019Part Phase 1 Only Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Phases 1-3 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Part Phase 1 Only Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Phase 1 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Part Phase 1 Only Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 2019Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 12 Aug 20192 Meadow Walk Wilmington Kent DA2 7BP
Received 14 Aug 2019Limetrees Pencroft Drive Dartford DA1 2PB
Received 15 Aug 20198 Arundel Road Dartford Kent DA1 5EH
Received 15 Aug 2019Northfleet West Sub Station Southfleet Road Swanscombe Kent
Received 15 Aug 201938 Briar Road Bexley Kent DA5 2HN
Received 16 Aug 2019Northview Nursery Clement Street Swanley Kent BR8 7PQ
Received 16 Aug 2019Land Between 7 And 9 Shiers Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5FQ
Received 16 Aug 20193 Firmin Road Dartford Kent DA1 3AR
Received 16 Aug 2019South House Pincroft Wood Longfield Kent DA3 7AJ
Received 16 Aug 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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