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.
7,046 approved · 1,080 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stone Pit 1 Cotton Lane Stone Kent
Received 17 Mar 2020Craylands Gorge Craylands Lane Swanscombe Kent
Received 17 Mar 2020Former Co-Op 20 - 54 Hythe Street, Spital Street And /Westgate Car Park Dartford Kent
Received 18 Mar 202010A Birchwood Drive Wilmington Kent DA2 7NE
Received 18 Mar 20201 Hardy Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 2FE
Received 18 Mar 202018 Royal Road Hawley Kent DA2 7RD
Received 18 Mar 2020High Trees Faesten Way Bexley Kent DA5 2JB
Received 18 Mar 202052 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HE
Received 19 Mar 2020192 Shirehall Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SW
Received 19 Mar 2020Former Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Received 19 Mar 2020Wren House Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7AE
Received 19 Mar 2020181-183 Hawley Grange Hawley Road Wilmington DA1 1PB
Received 20 Mar 2020Darenth Road Quarry Darenth Road Dartford Kent
Received 20 Mar 202049 Littlebrook Manor Way Dartford Kent DA1 5DU
Received 20 Mar 2020McDonalds 476 Princes Road Dartford Kent DA1 1YT
Received 20 Mar 20205 Kenwood Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7EX
Received 20 Mar 202038 Chave Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7ED
Received 23 Mar 2020122 Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PA
Received 23 Mar 202057 Shearwater Longfield Kent DA3 7NL
Received 23 Mar 202018 High Street Greenhithe Kent DA9 9NN
Received 23 Mar 202016 Fairlight Cross Longfield Kent DA3 7JD
Received 23 Mar 2020Plot 16A The Bridge Brunel Way Dartford Kent
Received 23 Mar 2020Darenth Road Quarry Darenth Road Dartford Kent
Received 20 Mar 20207 New Barn Road Southfleet Kent DA3 7LQ
Received 23 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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