Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
6,425 approved · 942 refused · 499 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Ashurst Place Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7JA
Received 22 Oct 2019Ringshill Farm (Building 4) Wouldham Road, Borstal Rochester Medway ME1 3TP
Received 22 Oct 2019186 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 3EH
Received 22 Oct 2019The Britannia 376 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1DJ
Received 22 Oct 2019102 Chart Place Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 0LW
Received 23 Oct 2019109 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0AG
Received 23 Oct 2019Barn Rear Of 67 Ordnance Street Chatham Medway ME4 6SH
Received 23 Oct 20199 Railway Street Chatham Medway ME4 4DG
Received 23 Oct 2019Royal School Of Military Engineering Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham Medway ME4 4UG
Received 23 Oct 2019143 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1EL
Received 23 Oct 2019Rochester Riverside Rochester ME1 1NH
Received 23 Oct 2019124-126 Delce Road Rochester Medway ME1 2DT
Received 23 Oct 2019St Andrews Lake Formby Road Halling Kent
Received 23 Oct 20191 Old Road Chatham Medway ME4 6BJ
Received 23 Oct 20192 St Helens Cottages Buttway Lane Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7QT
Received 24 Oct 2019Land Fronting The Paddock (rear Of 7-13 New Road) Chatham Kent ME4 4QL
Received 24 Oct 2019Rear Of 5 New Road Fronting The Paddock Chatham Kent ME4 4QJ
Received 24 Oct 201977 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9AA
Received 24 Oct 201919 Wilmington Way Twydall Gillingham Medway ME8 6HZ
Received 24 Oct 2019University Of Kent & Medway Footpaths Adjacent Central Avenue And North Road Chatham ME4 4BF
Received 25 Oct 201913 Iden Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME2 4PP
Received 25 Oct 20192 And 3 Denison Mews Lower Stoke Rochester Medway ME3 9LG
Received 25 Oct 201924 Bentley Close Lordswood Chatham Medway ME5 8UH
Received 25 Oct 201918 Hoo Common Chattenden Rochester Medway ME3 8LT
Received 25 Oct 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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