DA1 2DF Dartford

Streets

• Orchard Street, Dartford: 31 addresses
• Kent Road, Dartford: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Dartford in 2026-27: Band D £2,375 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (38% of about 1,230 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Dartford Town Centre Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 5.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): HMO Article 4(1) Direction North Order 2025.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 53 AND 55, SPITAL STREET, grade II
• BEADLES, grade II
• KENT HOUSE THE COUNTY COURT, grade II
• METHODIST CHURCH, grade II
• THE COACH AND HORSES PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• Former Co-Op 20-54 Hythe Street and Westgate Car Park, Kent Road, Dartford: up to 69 homes, not permissioned (60 m)
• 52 Spital Street, Dartford DA1 2DT: up to 14 homes, not permissioned (100 m)
• 22-26 Spital Street (former Courts Furniture store), Dartford: up to 10 homes, not permissioned (110 m)
• Land to the rear of 62-66 Spital Street, Dartford DA1 2DT: up to 28 homes, not permissioned (130 m)
• 26-28 Westgate Road, Dartford DA1 2AN: up to 9 homes, permissioned (160 m)
• Land At Highfield House, 2-4 West Hill And 74-76 Spital Street, Dartford: up to 23 homes, permissioned (160 m)
• 8-10 High Street, Dartford: up to 9 homes, permissioned (180 m)
• The Priory Shopping Centre, Dartford DA1 2HR: up to 390 homes, not permissioned (190 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 7%, gigabit 7% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.