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.
7,577 approved · 1,137 refused · 418 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jun 2014 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hawley Garden Centre Hawley Road Hawley Kent DA2 7RB
Received 10 Feb 2021173 Summerhouse Drive Bexley Kent DA2 7PD
Received 10 Feb 20213 Little Queen Street Dartford Kent DA1 1TL
Received 11 Feb 202176 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 11 Feb 202153 Maple Road Dartford Kent DA1 2QY
Received 11 Feb 202129 Chartwell Lane Longfield Kent DA3 7AY
Received 11 Feb 2021Stone Lodge School Cotton Lane Stone DA2 6PD
Received 11 Feb 20219 Chartwell Lane Longfield Kent DA3 7AY
Received 11 Feb 2021Land At Foxhounds Lane Southfleet Kent
Received 12 Feb 202153 Watling Street Dartford Kent DA1 1RW
Received 12 Feb 20212 Cameron Close Bexley Kent DA5 2JL
Received 12 Feb 2021209 Chastilian Road Dartford Kent DA1 3LW
Received 12 Feb 202176 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HG
Received 11 Feb 202166 Joydens Wood Road Bexley Kent DA5 2HT
Received 12 Feb 2021Land Rear Of 39-41 Brentfield Road Dartford Kent
Received 15 Feb 2021121 Mounts Road Greenhithe Kent DA9 9ND
Received 15 Feb 20214 Woodberry Grove Bexley Kent DA5 2JT
Received 15 Feb 2021New Bungalow 3 Shirehall Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7SE
Received 15 Feb 202124 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QD
Received 15 Feb 202149 Page Close Bean Kent DA2 8BX
Received 15 Feb 2021137 Coombfield Drive Darenth Kent DA2 7LF
Received 15 Feb 2021Thames Water Authority Hawley Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SR
Received 15 Feb 2021Land At Princes Road Outside 2 Olive Road Dartford
Received 15 Feb 20212 St Edmunds Road Dartford Kent DA1 5NE
Received 16 Feb 2021Records 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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