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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.
6,104 approved · 884 refused · 462 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
80 Cecil Road Rochester Medway ME1 2HS
Received 21 Jun 201920 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HE
Received 21 Jun 20195 Aldershot Road Wayfield Chatham Medway ME5 0HX
Received 21 Jun 2019Former Public House 63 High Street Chatham Medway ME4 4EE
Received 21 Jun 201921 The Avenue St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3AU
Received 21 Jun 2019272 St Margarets Banks Rochester Medway ME1 1HY
Received 21 Jun 201964 Copperfield Road Rochester Medway ME1 2JE
Received 24 Jun 201990 Crestway Wayfield Chatham Medway ME5 0BD
Received 22 Jun 2019353 Lonsdale Drive Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9LA
Received 22 Jun 201914 Amherst Road Rochester Medway ME1 2AR
Received 23 Jun 201958 Sunnymead Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 2DZ
Received 24 Jun 201922 Woodrush Place St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3BB
Received 24 Jun 201959 Brookmead Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Medway ME3 8HL
Received 24 Jun 2019341 Churchill Avenue Wayfield Chatham Medway ME5 0LA
Received 24 Jun 201953 Copenhagen Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4RU
Received 24 Jun 201910 Sedley Close Cliffe Woods Rochester Medway ME3 8HE
Received 24 Jun 2019121 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8AT
Received 24 Jun 2019171 Church Street Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7QB
Received 24 Jun 201917 Goddington Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3DD
Received 24 Jun 2019191 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham Medway ME8 0PX
Received 24 Jun 201975 Woodside Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0PN
Received 24 Jun 201917 City Way Rochester ME1 2AX
Received 24 Jun 201919 City Way Rochester ME1 2AX
Received 24 Jun 2019Land West Of Newlands Farm Road St Mary Hoo Rochester Medway ME3 8RE
Received 24 Jun 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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