Dartford planning applications
SiteLens tracks and classifies every planning application submitted to Dartford Borough Council, updated daily. Dartford Borough Council received 244 planning applications in the last 90 days, 8 of them major schemes. 77% of the applications it decided were approved, with a median decision time of 56 days.
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Site Of Former Littlebrook Power Station Rennie Drive Dartford Kent DA1 5PT
Hybrid EV charging hub and employment scheme, Dartford, at full and outline stage. Full application for a multi-energy charging hub with welfare and retail, plus outline B2/B8 employment across 4.02 hectares. Groundworks, utilities, drainage and hard landscaping lead, with M&E and steel to follow.
GroundworksM&EDrainage
Former Lynch Plant Site And Ambulance Station Hawley Road Dartford Kent DA1 1PB
Variation to 10,141 sqm Dartford employment scheme, amendment stage. Revises approved plans, phasing and landscaping, and allows interim open storage on Phase 2B. The live parent scheme keeps groundworks, steel, cladding and drainage packages open to subcontractors.
Acacia Hall, Sports Hall High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DJ
12.3-hectare change of use to public park, Dartford, full application. Converts private mixed-use land at Acacia Hall, High Street, to public park without stated building works. Opportunity sits in later landscaping, footpath and boundary packages if the council brings them forward.
16 Strickland Avenue Dartford Kent DA1 5JR
New three-bed house and rear extension, Dartford, full application stage. Erects a new three-bed dwelling and a single-storey rear extension at 16 Strickland Avenue. Groundworks, brickwork, roofing and drainage packages suit local subcontractors, with glazing and M&E for both homes.
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
56 Birchwood Road Wilmington Kent DA2 7HE
Single replacement dwelling with linked garage, Wilmington, full application. Demolishes an existing house, garage and shed, then builds one new dwelling with landscaping on the plot. Demolition, groundworks and brickwork packages come first, with roofing, joinery and landscaping to follow for…
DemolitionGroundworksBrickwork
Darent Valley Hospital Darenth Wood Road Darenth Kent DA2 8DA
Hospital roof plant and link corridor scheme, Darent Valley, full application. Adds roof plant, ducting, an acoustic screen, two link corridors and a roof deck to an existing hospital. Mechanical installers, steel fabricators and roofers for the deck and screen are the packages to target.
M&ESteelRoofing
13A Lowfield Street Dartford Kent DA1 1EN
Shop extension and frontage refurbishment, Dartford. Adds a 105 sqm single-storey rear extension and refits the shopfront of a Lowfield Street retail unit at full application stage. Groundworks, brickwork and shopfront glazing packages are open to local contractors, with joinery for the new…
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
The Orchard Theatre Home Gardens Dartford Kent DA1 1ED
Theatre fire exit and curtain walling scheme, Dartford. Adds a fire exit door, 2.7m curtain walling and an external steel stair and landing at full application stage. Glazing and steel fabricators, plus paving contractors for the new pavement connection, have the live packages.
GlazingSteelHard landscaping
208 Main Road Sutton At Hone Kent DA4 9HP
One-bedroom Class MA dwelling conversion, Sutton at Hone. Internal ground-floor conversion of an existing two-storey building into a single home, at prior approval stage. Fit-out, partitioning, first-fix plumbing and electrics suit small local kitchen, bathroom and drainage subcontractors.
Fit-outM&EDrainage
Unit 1 Storefast Estate Park Corner Road Southfleet Kent
384 sqm storage-to-office change of use, Dartford, full application. Converts a Southfleet B8 unit to E(g)(i) offices, B8 storage or a mix, with external alterations and parking. Office fit-out, partitioning, M&E and new glazing suit local fit-out contractors, with hard surfacing for the added…
Fit-outM&EGlazing
Moorcourt Gorsewood Road Longfield Kent DA3 7AD
Garden leisure complex with natural pool, Longfield, full application. 145 sqm of ancillary buildings and a natural pool with regeneration pond, at full application stage. Pool excavation, pond lining, permeable paving and pavilion joinery are the packages for local groundworkers and joiners.
GroundworksJoineryDrainage
The Yew Tree Green Street Green Road Darenth Kent DA2 8DP
Former pub flexible change of use with car park expansion, full application. Converts 165 sqm of basement, ground and part first floor to flexible drinking or Class E use, with an enlarged car park, at full stage. Bar fit-out, joinery and car park groundworks with surfacing are the packages for…
Fit-outGroundworksHard landscaping
John Lewis Partnership Unit 60 Claire Causeway Crossways Business Park Dartford Kent DA2 6QA
Returned-goods sales area inside a Dartford distribution unit, full application stage. Change of use of part of an existing Crossways warehouse for retail sale of returned stock, at full application stage. Partitioning, lighting, display fixtures and M&E tie-ins suit local fit-out contractors.
Fit-outM&E
Dartford Grammar School For Boys West Hill Dartford Kent DA1 2HW
Listed boundary wall repair, Dartford Grammar School, LBC stage. Listed building consent for repair works to a school boundary wall on West Hill, Dartford. Stonemasons, lime pointing contractors and scaffolders are the trades to approach for access and masonry repair.
Façade repairScaffolding
29 Coleridge Road Dartford Kent DA1 5NR
Rear dormer loft conversion in Dartford, at full application stage. Converts the roof space of an existing Coleridge Road house with a rear dormer and three front rooflights. Dormer roofing, joinery, steel for the floor and roof openings, and rooflight glazing suit local roofing and carpentry…
RoofingJoinerySteel
Planning appeals in Dartford Borough Council
An allowed appeal is one the council lost. Some kinds of appeal succeed far more often than others, so Dartford Borough Council is compared with the national rate for its own mix.
Dartford Borough Council, raw rate
26.2%
of judged appeals were allowed
Expected for this mix of appeals
30.1%
national rates applied to this caseload
3.9 percentage points below expected. Dartford Borough Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record predicts.
425 appeals counted, 412 judged either way (108 allowed, 304 dismissed), 13 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
By kind of appeal
| Appeal type | This council | National | Cases | Judged | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 24% | 28.8% | 186 | 183 | 44 |
| Householder (HAS) | 33.6% | 35.6% | 145 | 143 | 48 |
| Enforcement Notice | 15.6% | 13.5% | 34 | 32 | 5 |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 33.3% | 33.3% | 22 | 21 | 7 |
| Tree Preservation Order | 6.7% | 20.6% | 16 | 15 | 1 |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 14.3% | 36.9% | 7 | 7 | 1 |
6 more appeal types with fewer than 5 judged
| Appeal type | This council | National | Cases | Judged | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | Too few judged | 25% | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Advertisement Appeal | Too few judged | 36% | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | Too few judged | 27.6% | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Environmental | None judged | Not published | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| High Hedges | None judged | 28.5% | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Section 106 Agreement | Too few judged | 39.8% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
How we calculate this
Judged means allowed or dismissed. Withdrawn, invalid, split and unrecorded appeals are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. Expected applies the national rate for each appeal type to this council's own caseload. National rates by type are in The State of UK Planning.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database on GOV.UK, not the council's own planning register. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dartford Borough Council approval rates by application type
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months.
- householder73% (269 decided)
- residential67% (70 decided)
- other91% (57 decided)
- commercial85% (33 decided)
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