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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.
5,934 approved · 860 refused · 454 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Nye Bevan Memorial Hall 122A Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham Medway ME8 6JU
Received 8 May 201973 Haig Avenue Rochester Medway ME1 2RY
Received 9 May 2019Kingsnorth Quarry Land To The South Of Stoke Road Rochester Hoo St Werburgh ME3 9NJ
Received 9 May 201925 Cardigan Close High Halstow Rochester Kent ME3 8NX
Received 9 May 201941 Illustrious Close Princes Park Chatham Kent ME5 7RW
Received 8 May 20199 Malvern Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4BA
Received 9 May 201911 City Way Rochester ME1 2AX
Received 9 May 201943 Georgian Way Wigmore Gillingham Medway ME8 0QZ
Received 10 May 20191 Port Rise Chatham Medway ME4 6QA
Received 9 May 201910 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0AA
Received 9 May 201928 Chicago Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 2DR
Received 10 May 201929 Sunningdale Drive Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9EQ
Received 10 May 2019170 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester Kent ME2 1HB
Received 9 May 2019276 Magpie Hall Road Chatham Kent ME4 5XQ
Received 9 May 2019Acorn House 39 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6DP
Received 10 May 2019Flanders Farm Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8QE
Received 9 May 2019Land At Walnut Tree Farm North Of Britannia Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SQ
Received 13 May 2019Bligh Infant School Bligh Way Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2XJ
Received 10 May 201912 Conway Close Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3SL
Received 10 May 2019Street Farm Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9BH
Received 13 May 20194 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 6TR
Received 10 May 20194 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 6TR
Received 13 May 201980 Sedley Close Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9QY
Received 10 May 20193 Admiralty Road Upnor Rochester Medway ME2 4XY
Received 10 May 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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