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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.
6,342 approved · 930 refused · 487 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Knight Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 1UE
Received 17 Sept 2019Land At Chatham Waters Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 17 Sept 2019Redvers Centre Glencoe Road Chatham Medway ME4 5QD
Received 17 Sept 20194 Ruggles Close High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8RU
Received 17 Sept 2019157 Bettescombe Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9HS
Received 17 Sept 2019513 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JX
Received 17 Sept 2019Rochester Riverside Rochester ME1 1NH
Received 17 Sept 2019Trenow 35 Kit Hill Avenue Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 9EX
Received 17 Sept 201924 Temple Gardens Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2NQ
Received 18 Sept 2019220 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9HG
Received 18 Sept 2019Tesco Express Westgate Service Station Gravesend Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3PW
Received 18 Sept 20191 Nashenden Farm Cottage Nashenden Farm Lane Borstal Rochester Medway ME1 3TQ
Received 18 Sept 201982 Hamelin Road Darland Gillingham Medway ME7 3ER
Received 18 Sept 201937 Station Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7SB
Received 18 Sept 201978 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham Medway ME5 9TS
Received 18 Sept 201914 Goodwin Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Medway ME3 8HR
Received 18 Sept 201980 & 82 Nelson Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4LJ
Received 18 Sept 2019Ground Floor 1 Limehouse Wharf Rochester Medway ME1 1GQ
Received 18 Sept 2019179 Featherby Road Gillingham Medway ME8 6DE
Received 18 Sept 2019361 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 9LW
Received 18 Sept 2019Flat 2 96 Windmill Road Gillingham Medway ME7 5NX
Received 19 Sept 20197 Tobruk Way Wayfield Chatham Medway ME5 0JP
Received 19 Sept 2019314 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham Medway ME5 8JT
Received 19 Sept 2019Southern House Capstone Road Lordswood Chatham Medway ME5 7QA
Received 19 Sept 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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