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A planning application was submitted in 2020, and withdrawn. A new planning application was submitted in November 2022; the planning process was expected to take 18 months, [1] but this was extended to 4 October 2024, due to the July 2024 general election. [7] A decision to further postpone a decision, to 23 May 2025, was announced on 7 October ...
The Borough of Dartford is a local government district with borough status in the north-west of the county of Kent, England. It is named after its main town of Dartford , where the council is based. Other notable settlements include Greenhithe , Stone and Swanscombe , along with an emerging new town at Ebbsfleet , and a number of smaller villages.
The concept was re-proposed in 2004, with preliminary planning proceeding until November 2008, when Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, cancelled the entire £500 million scheme. In 2009, a new scaled-down project on the same site, the Gallions Reach Crossing , was proposed, joined in 2015 by the Belvedere Crossing , until both proposals were ...
1996: Ebbsfleet Central Outline Application submitted. 1999: Bluewater Shopping Centre opens. 2002: Outline planning permission for homes granted by Gravesham and Dartford Council. 2003: Springhead Masterplan approved, Eastern Quarry Outline Application Submitted. 2004: Swanscombe Peninsula Outline permission submitted for mixed-use scheme.
Borough/district councils are responsible for local planning and building control, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.
Dartford is also home to Dartford and White Oak Triathlon Club; formed in 1988, it is one of the oldest British Triathlon Federation clubs in the UK. The club trains at The Bridge Estate, Dartford. Sports centres in Dartford include the Becket Sports Centre, within the grounds of Dartford Grammar School on Shepherds Lane, which is the home of ...
Leyton Cross is a small semi-rural area in Kent, England, that largely falls within the parish of Wilmington in the borough of Dartford, although north of Oakfield Lane the area is administered directly by Dartford Borough Council. The boundaries of Leyton Cross are ill-defined but the residential area is generally said to include the ...
The non-metropolitan county councils (where they exist) are the planning authorities for minerals, waste and their own developments, such as most schools, care homes, fire stations and highways. The Mayor of London has the right to become the local planning authority for individual applications already submitted to a local planning authority.