Land by postcode · DA area · Dartford
Dartford covers three postcode districts, DA1, DA2 and DA4, in Kent. Planning applications here are decided mostly by the Dartford planning authority, with Bexley and Sevenoaks covering the rest. Below: what homes sold for, which planning controls apply, and what that means before you sell or develop a plot in Dartford.
Residential sales recorded by HM Land Registry between 2024-08 and 2026-07 across all three of Dartford's postcode districts. This is market context for the town, not a land valuation: what a plot is worth depends on what can be built on it, which these figures do not show.
Sales in 24 months
2,206
Median sale price
£375,000
Median £ per m² of floor area
£4,667
Median, last 12m vs prior 12m
0%
£375,000 → £375,000
Mix of sales: 9% detached, 30% semi-detached, 37% terraced, 24% flats.
New-build sales 2023–2024: 153 of 2,176 (7%). A rough proxy for recent building activity: these are homes sold by builders, not development sites.
For each designation on the planning.data.gov.uk register, the share of the 2,025 live postcodes in Dartford's three districts whose centroid falls inside it. This measures postcodes, not land area, and says nothing about any individual plot.
226 of 2,025 postcodes
Mostly in DA2 and DA4: 104 of DA2's 516 postcodes and 86 of DA4's 243 postcodes.
99 of 2,025 postcodes
Kent Downs
61 of 2,025 postcodes
Dartford Town Centre Conservation Area · Star Hill · COA00000657 · Church Hill Conservation Area
1,243 of 2,025 postcodes
1 separate direction recorded, each removing particular permitted development rights within a defined area.
No postcodes in Dartford's three districts fall inside: National Park.
Flood zones, tree preservation orders, local plan allocations, settlement boundaries and non-designated heritage are not included here and are checked in a full assessment.
11% of postcodes in Dartford are inside the Green Belt, so Dartford has land both inside and outside it. The Green Belt postcodes sit mostly in DA2 and DA4. Which side of the boundary a plot sits on determines whether the Green Belt tests apply to it at all.
61% of postcodes are covered by an Article 4 direction, which removes specific permitted development rights in that area, so changes that are automatic elsewhere need a planning application there.
These are town-level facts. The free assessment checks your actual boundary against the same registers and the local plan and tells you plainly what they mean for your plot.
Decided planning applications in Dartford since 2021, from the council registers, grouped by the kind of scheme a landowner might be weighing up. Extensions, conditions and tree works are left out. Counts, not estimates.
Taken from the units table on the planning form itself, so this is homes actually created, not a reading of the description. 11 decided since 2021, 4 refused.
6 of 11
approved, 55%
48% across London
16 homes approved of 24 applied for
Approved examples
Land Adjacent To 25 Lea Vale Crayford Dartford Kent DA1 4DL (2 new homes)
Demolition of 2 x existing garages for erection of two storey building comprising of two residential units with refuse storage to rear and p...
Approved 2025-11-10, Bexley ref 24/02110/FUL
150 Crayford Road Crayford Dartford Kent DA1 4ES (1 new home)
Change of use of the rear of the premises from existing commercial/retail use to create a residential unit to the ground floor, along with a...
Approved 2025-03-10, Bexley ref 24/02445/FUL
86 Crayford Road Crayford Dartford Kent DA1 4AT (9 new homes)
Erection of a part five/part six storey residential block comprising 9 x 2 bed self-contained flats with associated car parking, cycle and w...
Approved 2021-10-01, Bexley ref 21/01651/FUL
By the kind of plot, from the wording of each proposal:
7 decided since 2021, 3 refused
3 of 7
approved, 43%
45% across London
Approved examples
Land Adjacent To 25 Lea Vale Crayford Dartford Kent DA1 4DL
Demolition of 2 x existing garages for erection of two storey building comprising of two residential units with refuse storage to rear and p...
Approved 2025-11-10, Bexley ref 24/02110/FUL
Also decided here: 9 applications for outbuildings, annexes or garden buildings, 7 approved.
Decided planning applications (not extensions, conditions or tree works) from the councils' own registers, summed across the 1 of 3 postcode districts in Dartford that carry them, classified by the wording of each proposal. Counts, not estimates; within a district, a class with fewer than three applications is not counted.
Dartford's three districts are split between planning authorities: Dartford (77% of sampled postcodes), Bexley (13%), Sevenoaks (10%).
Borough guide: Selling land in Bexley
Draw your boundary, tell us what you own, and an architect checks it against these registers and the local plan. Free, no obligation, and you get a straight written answer.
It depends on where the plot sits, not on the town average. Across Dartford, 11% of postcodes are in the Green Belt, 5% in a National Landscape and 3% in a conservation area. Green Belt land is concentrated in DA2 and DA4; on Green Belt or National Landscape plots a new home is the exception and needs a specific case, and a replacement dwelling, a conversion or a modest extension is usually the realistic route. Outside those designations the questions that decide it are whether the plot is inside or adjoining the settlement boundary in the local plan, whether it has its own road access, and what is next to it.
Often, yes. 61% of postcodes in Dartford are under an Article 4 direction (1 separate direction), which withdraws particular permitted development rights, so an outbuilding, extension or change of use that is automatic elsewhere needs an application there. Outside those areas, permitted development applies to houses and their gardens but not to agricultural land or paddocks, where a new building or a new use normally needs permission or prior approval.
Developers look at three things before they talk about price: whether the plot is outside the Green Belt and any National Landscape, whether it sits inside or beside the settlement boundary, and what finished homes sell for. In Dartford the median sale is £375,000, from £365,000 in DA1 to £400,000 in DA2, and only 7% of 2023–2024 sales were new-build homes, so builders have been quiet here. A single plot usually goes to a local builder or a self-builder; a site for five or more homes attracts regional housebuilders, normally through an option or a conditional contract rather than an outright purchase, so the price you see quoted is not the price you receive.
There is no town figure for land, because a plot's value comes from what can be built on it, not from where it is. As a guide, a serviced plot with consent for one house commonly sells for around a third of the finished house value, which in Dartford would be measured against a £375,000 median sale. The same plot without consent, or inside the Green Belt, is worth a small fraction of that, and a paddock with no realistic route to consent is worth agricultural or amenity value only. The free check tells you which of those your plot is before you talk to anyone about a price.
Computed from open-data records; town-level, not plot-level measurements. Dartford here means the three postcode districts whose most common post town is Dartford. Sales: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (2024-08-01 to 2026-07-31), © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence. Designations: planning.data.gov.uk (OGL); conservation areas and Article 4 directions are made locally and published on that national register. Postcode centroids: OS Code-Point Open, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Figures computed 2026-10-19.