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.
8,882 approved · 1,310 refused · 469 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Nov 2008 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Oakfield Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2SN
Received 24 Mar 20225 Oakfield Lane Dartford Kent DA1 2SN
Received 24 Mar 202228 Swaledale Road Dartford Kent DA2 6JZ
Received 25 Mar 202226 Myrtle Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RJ
Received 28 Mar 20221 Fernheath Way Wilmington Kent DA2 7PE
Received 28 Mar 202240 Clayton Croft Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7AU
Received 22 Mar 2022Asda RDC Unit 8 Galleon Boulevard Crossways Business Park Dartford Kent DA2 6QR
Received 21 Mar 2022Dimples Day Nursery Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 7HT
Received 21 Mar 2022Sheerness Recycling Ltd Land To The South Of Manor Way Swanscombe Kent DA10 0PP
Received 24 Mar 2022Former Croxton And Garry Site Tiltman Avenue Greenhithe Kent
Received 24 Mar 2022The Cave Of The Seven Heads, Lovers Arch And Monks Well Ingress Park DA9 9UR
Received 28 Mar 2022The Grange Gatehouse And Georgian Garden Tunnel Ingress Park Greenhithe Kent
Received 28 Mar 2022Grange Tunnels And Lime Kiln Brick Tunnel At Ingress Abbey Ingress Park Greenhithe Kent
Received 28 Mar 20227 Teynham Road Dartford Kent DA2 6GE
Received 29 Mar 2022Bumblebee Cottage Trollingdown Hill Green Street Green Road Darenth Kent DA2 6NR
Received 29 Mar 20227 Raeburn Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 3BQ
Received 29 Mar 202216 Waterstone Way Stone Kent DA9 9TU
Received 29 Mar 2022Land Adjacent 2 Hart Shaw Longfield Kent DA3 7JH
Received 29 Mar 202257 Top Dartford Road Hextable Swanley Kent BR8 7SG
Received 29 Mar 2022Dimples Day Nursery Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 7HT
Received 21 Mar 2022Dimples Day Nursery Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 7HT
Received 21 Mar 2022Site Of Former Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Received 30 Mar 20225 Littledale Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 7HU
Received 30 Mar 20225 Littledale Green Street Green Road Dartford Kent DA2 7HU
Received 30 Mar 2022Records 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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