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.
6,935 approved · 1,067 refused · 390 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
95 Lansbury Crescent Dartford Kent DA1 5DQ
Received 4 Dec 2019Wren House Main Road Longfield Kent DA3 7AE
Received 5 Dec 201931 Havelock Road Dartford Kent DA1 3HY
Received 4 Dec 201922 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HE
Received 5 Dec 201911 Denver Road Dartford Kent DA1 3LA
Received 5 Dec 201989 St Vincents Road Dartford Kent DA1 1XA
Received 5 Dec 2019Community Centre Ingress Park Avenue Greenhithe Kent DA9 9FR
Received 5 Dec 20192 Trebble Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0EB
Received 5 Dec 201914 Cowdrey Court Dartford Kent DA1 2PL
Received 6 Dec 2019Phase 1 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 6 Dec 2019River Mill Primary School Central Road Dartford Kent DA1 5XR
Received 6 Dec 2019Prospect Place Shellbank Lane Bean Kent DA2 8AX
Received 9 Dec 2019Ingress Park Site Greenhithe Kent
Received 9 Dec 2019131 Hill Rise Darenth Kent DA2 7JA
Received 9 Dec 2019Abbott Murex Site And Part Mill Pond Land To South Lower Hythe Street Dartford Kent DA1 1BN
Received 4 Dec 2019Phase 1 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 6 Dec 2019Phase 1 Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 6 Dec 2019100 The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YW
Received 11 Dec 20195 Sanderling Way Stone Kent DA9 9RQ
Received 12 Dec 201975 Broomfield Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0LU
Received 13 Dec 2019Major Space Unit 7 (MSU7) West Village & Service Yards 5, 8 And 12 Bluewater
Received 13 Dec 201962 - 64 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DE
Received 13 Dec 2019The Wharf Galleon Boulevard Crossways Business Park Dartford Kent DA2 6QE
Received 13 Dec 2019Units C & D Corinthian House Galleon Boulevard Crossways Business Park Dartford Kent
Received 13 Dec 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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