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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Gravesham Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,798 approved · 1,592 refused · 232 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Apr 1983 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land At St Albans Close Gravesend Kent DA12 5SE
Received 14 Jan 2026Land At St Albans Close Gravesend Kent DA12 5SE
Received 14 Jan 2026Milton Place Car Park Gravesend Kent DA12 2BT
Received 14 Jan 202634 Tennyson Walk Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8LR
Received 14 Jan 2026105 London Road Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 9LY
Received 14 Jan 2026195 Parrock Street Gravesend Kent DA12 1EW
Received 14 Jan 2026St Margarets Hermitage Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7ND
Received 14 Jan 2026Outside 1The Street Cobham Gravesend Kent
Received 14 Jan 2026Outside Telephone Exchange Green Lane Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0ET
Received 14 Jan 2026Outside Watmough House The Parade Wrotham Road Meopham Gravesend Kent
Received 14 Jan 2026Outside 3 Arnold Avenue Meopham Gravesend Kent
Received 14 Jan 2026Brookvale Depot Springhead Road Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8HW
Received 15 Jan 202617 Wrotham Road Gravesend Kent DA11 0PA
Received 15 Jan 202624 Barley Drive Gravesend Kent DA11 7GP
Received 15 Jan 202627 Kings Drive Gravesend Kent DA12 5BG
Received 15 Jan 202629 Istead Rise Gravesend Kent DA13 9JE
Received 15 Jan 202634 Timber Bank Vigo Gravesend Kent DA13 0RZ
Received 15 Jan 2026118 Dene Holm Road Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8LN
Received 16 Jan 202644 Lynton Road South Gravesend Kent DA11 7NF
Received 16 Jan 202642 Marling Way Gravesend Kent DA12 4DN
Received 16 Jan 20263 High View Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7HR
Received 16 Jan 202662 Snelling Avenue Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 7EG
Received 16 Jan 2026Northfleet Technology College Colyer Road Northfleet Gravesend Kent DA11 8BN
Received 15 Jan 20269 Lawrence Drive Cobham Gravesend Kent DA12 3BU
Received 19 Jan 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Gravesham Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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