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.
8,999 approved · 1,328 refused · 477 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Sept 2008 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land On East Side Of Nurstead Ave Longfield DA3 7HG
Received 24 Sept 2025Land West Of Shellbank Cottage Shellbank Lane Bean Kent
Received 23 Sept 20251 The Maples Longfield Kent DA3 7JW
Received 24 Sept 20257 Beech Road Dartford Kent DA1 2RQ
Received 25 Sept 202523 Derwent Close Dartford Kent DA1 2TT
Received 25 Sept 2025The Complex Gym Manor Farm Shellbank Lane Bean Kent
Received 25 Sept 2025The Oast House Manor Farm Shellbank Lane Bean Kent DA2 8DL
Received 25 Sept 20254 Chaucer Park Sterndale Road Dartford Kent DA1 1RE
Received 26 Sept 202515 King Edward Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 2HZ
Received 26 Sept 2025212 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 26 Sept 20255 Fairway Drive Dartford Kent DA2 6AR
Received 29 Sept 20251 Lunedale Road Dartford Kent DA2 6LR
Received 29 Sept 202510 Littledale Green Street Green Road Darenth Kent DA2 7HU
Received 29 Sept 20251A Wallis Close Wilmington Kent DA2 7BE
Received 29 Sept 2025Savigny Darenth Hill Darenth Kent DA2 7QR
Received 29 Sept 202518 West Hill Drive Dartford Kent DA1 3DU
Received 29 Sept 202543 Edwin Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7DD
Received 30 Sept 2025200 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HA
Received 30 Sept 202519 Fawkham Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7HS
Received 30 Sept 20256 North Riding Fawkham Avenue Longfield Kent DA3 7HS
Received 30 Sept 202589 St Albans Road Dartford Kent DA1 1TY
Received 30 Sept 202520 Eden Close Bexley Kent DA5 2EH
Received 30 Sept 2025Europcar Victoria Road Dartford DA1 1BN
Received 30 Sept 202538 - 40 Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1HD
Received 1 Oct 2025Records 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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