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.
8,737 approved · 1,291 refused · 463 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Electricity Sub Station West Of Central Road Dartford Kent
Received 29 Oct 2021Bean Post Office Southfleet Road Bean DA2 8BS
Received 1 Nov 202128 Elm Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RT
Received 1 Nov 2021Land East Of Lowfield Street Dartford Kent
Received 1 Nov 202140 High Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7BN
Received 1 Nov 2021High Hopes Manor Road Swanscombe Kent DA10 0ES
Received 1 Nov 202117A Childs Crescent Swanscombe Kent DA10 0EA
Received 1 Nov 2021Robinson Jackson Estate Agents 22 Market Street Dartford Kent DA1 1EZ
Received 1 Nov 202114 The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YG
Received 1 Nov 202114 The Brent Dartford Kent DA1 1YG
Received 1 Nov 202124 Browning Road Dartford Kent DA1 5ET
Received 1 Nov 2021Land Adjacent Watts Wood Including Mardyke Farm Ship Land And Broomhill Arterial Road Purfleet-on-Thames Essex
Received 2 Nov 2021Former Mercedes Benz Burnham Road Dartford Kent DA1 5BL
Received 2 Nov 20219 Hesketh Avenue Dartford Kent DA2 6NP
Received 2 Nov 202150 Mayfair Road Dartford Kent DA1 5AQ
Received 3 Nov 202118 Bankside Close Bexley Kent DA5 2HE
Received 3 Nov 2021240 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HJ
Received 3 Nov 20214 Fairway Drive Dartford Kent DA2 6AR
Received 3 Nov 20219 Watermans Way Greenhithe Kent DA9 9GJ
Received 3 Nov 202115 Heathlands Rise Dartford Kent DA1 3HS
Received 4 Nov 20211B Ryecroft Longfield Kent DA3 7AU
Received 4 Nov 202111 Harold Road Hawley Kent DA2 7SA
Received 4 Nov 202178 Denver Road Dartford Kent DA1 3JT
Received 4 Nov 202115 Heathlands Rise Dartford Kent DA1 3HS
Received 4 Nov 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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