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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.
7,027 approved · 1,077 refused · 393 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Sept 2014 to 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
68 Little Queen Street Dartford Kent DA1 1TL
Received 11 Mar 20204 St Vincents Villas Temple Hill Dartford Kent DA1 5HT
Received 11 Mar 2020Heatherbank Rowhill Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7QQ
Received 11 Mar 2020Instone House Instone Road Dartford Kent
Received 9 Mar 202026 Oakfield Park Road Wilmington Kent DA1 2ST
Received 11 Mar 2020The Alma 26 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AB
Received 11 Mar 2020Plot 2 Questor 11 Applegarth Drive Questor Wilmington Kent DA1 1JD
Received 12 Mar 2020Plot 3B Fawkes Avenue Questor Wilmington Kent
Received 12 Mar 202048 Brakefield Road Southfleet Kent
Received 12 Mar 2020Transmitter Mast Bow Arrow Lane Stone DA2 6PQ
Received 12 Mar 202023 Morland Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3BW
Received 12 Mar 202092 Warren Road Wilmington Kent DA1 1PL
Received 12 Mar 2020The Alma 26 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AB
Received 11 Mar 2020The Alma 26 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AB
Received 11 Mar 2020The Alma 26 High Street Swanscombe Kent DA10 0AB
Received 11 Mar 202038 The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YN
Received 13 Mar 20203 North Riding Fawkham Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7HS
Received 13 Mar 202061 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DJ
Received 13 Mar 202015 Coombfield Drive Darenth Kent DA2 7LG
Received 13 Mar 202072 Maple Road Dartford Kent DA1 2QZ
Received 13 Mar 202045 Burroughs Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5TW
Received 16 Mar 202025 Fawkham Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QP
Received 17 Mar 202046 Foxwood Road Bean Kent DA2 8BH
Received 17 Mar 2020197 Station Road Crayford Kent DA1 3QF
Received 17 Mar 2020Records 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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