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93 Dale Street Dartford Kent DA1 5TY

25/00200/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 July 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from an existing residential dwelling (C3a use class) to a children's care home (C2 use class)

Received
21 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Town
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated22 Apr
  3. Consult.14 May
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 93 Dale Street Dartford Kent DA1 5TY. Dartford has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 152 days, 14 weeks longer than Dartford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 76 applications across Town. We hold 984 applications in total for the DA1 postcode area.

93% of amendment applications at Dartford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DA1 5TY
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Not Parished

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 April 2025
Consultation expiry
18 May 2025
Consultation start
23 April 2025
Consultation end
14 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
23 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 May 2025
Last date for comments
18 May 2025
Target decision date
23 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
443 Streatham High Road London SW16 3PH

Planning decision

Case officer
Samantha Mitchell
Statutory period
92 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13796319
Documents
9
Constraints
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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