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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
7,565 approved · 1,094 refused · 570 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 And 40 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1LJ
Received 14 Dec 202338 And 40 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1LJ
Received 14 Dec 2023Land Rear Of 38-40 High Street Rochester Medway ME1 1LJ
Received 14 Dec 202363 Woodlands Road Gillingham Medway ME7 2DU
Received 14 Dec 202329 Rookery Crescent Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7RH
Received 14 Dec 202313 - 17 North Street Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4SL
Received 14 Dec 202318 Canon Close Rochester Medway ME1 3EN
Received 15 Dec 202314 Augustus Way St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3AW
Received 14 Dec 202312 Bradfields Avenue Wayfield Chatham Medway ME5 0LE
Received 15 Dec 202313 - 17 North Street Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4SL
Received 15 Dec 20238 Shelden Drive Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8JX
Received 18 Dec 202380 Cecil Road Rochester Medway ME1 2HS
Received 18 Dec 202380 Cecil Road Rochester Medway ME1 2HS
Received 18 Dec 202310 Samphire Way St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3AT
Received 16 Dec 202312 Bradfields Avenue Wayfield Chatham Medway ME5 0LE
Received 18 Dec 2023University Of Greenwich Pembroke Building (Formerly The Wardrooms) Central Avenue Chatham Maritime Gillingham Medway ME4 4TB
Received 18 Dec 2023Rochester Riverside Rochester ME1 1NH
Received 18 Dec 20234 Keeley Mews Gillingham Medway ME7 2NB
Received 18 Dec 202313 - 17 North Street Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4SL
Received 18 Dec 20237 Glanville Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3EH
Received 18 Dec 2023Cervin Forge Lane High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8SL
Received 18 Dec 2023Fort Pitt Grammar School Fort Pitt Hill Chatham Medway ME4 6TJ
Received 18 Dec 2023Ambulance Station Star Mill Lane Darland Chatham Medway ME5 7HE
Received 18 Dec 202311-13A Parr Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 1QA
Received 18 Dec 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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