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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.
7,531 approved · 1,091 refused · 570 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Allhallows Holiday Park Allhallows Rochester Medway ME3 9QD
Received 13 Nov 2023St Thomas More Rc Primary School Bleakwood Road Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 0NF
Received 13 Nov 20238 Second Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 2HT
Received 13 Nov 202319 Kennington Close Twydall Gillingham Medway ME8 6QL
Received 13 Nov 202310 Love Lane Rochester Medway ME1 1TN
Received 13 Nov 2023Land Adjacent To Balancing Pond St Andrews Park Halling Kent
Received 13 Nov 2023196 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6HS
Received 13 Nov 202311 Park Crescent Chatham Medway ME4 6NR
Received 13 Nov 2023299 High Street Chatham Medway ME4 4BN
Received 13 Nov 2023Highway Adjacent To 162 Church Street Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7QB
Received 14 Nov 202351 Pagitt Street Chatham Medway ME4 6RE
Received 14 Nov 20233 Warren Wood Road Rochester Medway ME1 2UB
Received 14 Nov 2023Whitewall Creek Water Treatment Works Upnor Road Upnor Rochester Medway ME2 4UZ
Received 14 Nov 2023650 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham Medway ME5 8RB
Received 14 Nov 2023Land Adjacent Rochester Train Station Corporation Street Rochester Medway ME1 1NH
Received 14 Nov 202332 Yantlet Drive Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2TJ
Received 14 Nov 2023Land East Of Formby Road Halling Rochester Medway ME2 1AW
Received 14 Nov 2023Land At Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Medway ME3 8JL
Received 13 Nov 202328 The Platters Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0DJ
Received 15 Nov 2023Allhallows Holiday Park Allhallows Rochester Medway ME3 9QD
Received 15 Nov 2023105 Canterbury Street Gillingham Medway ME7 5TS
Received 15 Nov 2023198 Barnsole Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4JG
Received 15 Nov 202328 Garden Street Brompton Gillingham Medway ME7 5AS
Received 15 Nov 20231 Roebuck Road Rochester Medway ME1 1UE
Received 15 Nov 2023Records 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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