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 Dover District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,742 approved · 156 refused · 108 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Nov 2022 to 28 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 30 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Brooke House Brooke Park Brooke Street Ash CT3 2NP
Received 14 Jul 202663 High Street Deal CT14 6EH
Received 14 Jul 202663 High Street Deal CT14 6EH
Received 14 Jul 202689 Lewisham Road River CT17 0PA
Received 14 Jul 2026Stables On The Land At Popples Farm Dover Road Ringwould Deal CT14 8HG
Received 14 Jul 202614 Park View Rise Nonington CT15 4JS
Received 14 Jul 2026Former Buckland Hospital Coombe Valley Road Dover CT17 0HD
Received 14 Jul 202610 Coppin Street Deal CT14 6JL
Received 15 Jul 202610 Coppin Street Deal CT14 6JL
Received 15 Jul 2026Dolittle Farm Dover Road Westcliffe Dover CT15 6EN
Received 15 Jul 2026Former Buckland Hospital Coombe Valley Road Dover CT17 0HD
Received 16 Jul 202631 Archers Court Road Whitfield CT16 3HP
Received 16 Jul 20265 - 6 Chapel Place Mogul House Dover CT17 9AS
Received 16 Jul 2026Fiveways The Cross Eastry CT13 0FZ
Received 16 Jul 2026Windy Knoll Grove Road Preston CT3 1EE
Received 16 Jul 20262 Knightrider Street Sandwich CT13 9EW
Received 16 Jul 20267 Buttermere Gardens Aylesham CT3 3LT
Received 17 Jul 20269 Park Place Dover CT16 1DF
Received 17 Jul 2026Cherry Tree Cottage Fleming Road Staple CT3 1LG
Received 17 Jul 2026How Wood Cottage Padbrook Lane Elmstone CT3 1HF
Received 19 Jul 20263 Satmar Cottages Satmar Lane Capel Le Ferne CT18 7JF
Received 20 Jul 2026Wigmore House Wigmore Lane Eythorne CT15 4AW
Received 20 Jul 2026Land Rear Of 74 Archers Court Road Whitfield Dover
Received 20 Jul 20269 Woods Place Dover CT17 0JW
Received 20 Jul 2026Records 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 Dover District 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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