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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 Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,885 approved · 852 refused · 449 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
34 Salisbury Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0BH
Received 16 Apr 2019The Railway 113 Station Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7SF
Received 17 Apr 2019Land Adjacent To 152 Chatham Hill Luton Chatham Medway ME5 7BB
Received 17 Apr 201931-35 Balmoral Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4QB
Received 16 Apr 201932 Blaker Avenue Rochester Medway ME1 2RU
Received 17 Apr 20196 Stalham Court Hempstead Gillingham Medway ME7 3TF
Received 17 Apr 2019142 Snodhurst Avenue Horsted Chatham Medway ME5 0TB
Received 18 Apr 201911 City Way Rochester ME1 2AX
Received 18 Apr 2019Unit 4A London Medway Commercial Park James Swallow Way Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9GX
Received 17 Apr 20192 Chesterton Road Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7QX
Received 17 Apr 201969 Fleet Road Rochester Medway ME1 2PX
Received 17 Apr 201917 Ordnance Terrace Chatham Medway ME4 6PS
Received 18 Apr 2019Unit 2B London Medway Commercial Park James Swallow Way Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9GX
Received 18 Apr 2019Berengrave Nursery Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7NL
Received 18 Apr 2019Berengrave Nursery Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7NL
Received 18 Apr 2019Berengrave Nursery Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7NL
Received 23 Apr 201994 Essex Road Halling Rochester Medway ME2 1AX
Received 23 Apr 2019100 Jarrett Avenue Wainscott Rochester Medway ME2 4NG
Received 23 Apr 20191 Coniston Close Gillingham Medway ME7 2TH
Received 18 Apr 2019The Beacon Court Tavern 1 Copenhagen Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4RY
Received 23 Apr 2019103 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Medway ME3 8UG
Received 18 Apr 2019Land Adjacent Fenn House Farm Fenn Street St Mary Hoo Rochester Medway ME3 8QT
Received 18 Apr 201964 Windermere Drive Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9DX
Received 23 Apr 201955 Chalfont Drive Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9DW
Received 19 Apr 2019Records 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 Medway 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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