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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 Gravesham Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,457 approved · 1,480 refused · 214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Apr 1983 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
100 Pepper Hill Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8EZ
Received 14 Dec 2023Cleat 10A Hillside Drive Gravesend Kent DA12 1NY
Received 15 Dec 202362 Windmill Street Gravesend Kent
Received 15 Dec 202362 Windmill Street Gravesend Kent
Received 15 Dec 202312 Pepper Hill Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8EY
Received 15 Dec 2023Home Acre Melliker Lane Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0HY
Received 15 Dec 2023The Chestnuts Wrotham Road Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 9AH
Received 15 Dec 202371 Darnley Road Gravesend Kent DA11 0SQ
Received 14 Dec 2023Meopham School Wrotham Road Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0AH
Received 15 Dec 2023Meopham School Wrotham Road Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0AH
Received 15 Dec 2023Land To Rear Of 15 - 17 Darnley Road Gravesend Kent DA11 0RZ
Received 18 Dec 20234 Russell Road Gravesend Kent DA12 2RT
Received 18 Dec 20232 Copperfield Crescent Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7NJ
Received 18 Dec 2023Green Ridge Wrotham Road Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0HX
Received 18 Dec 2023Three Bears Cottage 4 Sunny Side Wrotham Road Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0AP
Received 18 Dec 202383 Windsor Road Gravesend Kent DA12 5BW
Received 18 Dec 202311 Osney Way Gravesend Kent DA12 2NB
Received 18 Dec 2023Longmead Foxendown Lane Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0AE
Received 18 Dec 2023Britannia Refined Metals Ltd Lower Road Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 9BG
Received 15 Dec 2023Lazzat Gravesend Road Wrotham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7JS
Received 19 Dec 2023Lazzat Gravesend Road Wrotham Sevenoaks Kent TN15 7JS
Received 19 Dec 20237 Denesway Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0EA
Received 19 Dec 2023Eastcourt Marshes Electricity Distribution Site Mark Lane Gravesend Kent DA12 2HN
Received 19 Dec 202351 St Marks Avenue Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 9LN
Received 19 Dec 2023Records 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 Gravesham 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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