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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.
7,571 approved · 1,094 refused · 570 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Augustine Of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Deanwood Drive Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9NP
Received 22 Dec 2023Land South Of Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7UD
Received 22 Dec 202355 Watling Street Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3JH
Received 22 Dec 20235 Ranscombe Farm Cottages Sundridge Hill Cuxton Rochester Medway ME2 1LA
Received 22 Dec 2023Land At The Former Sturdee Club And Land At Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh ME3 9BJ
Received 22 Dec 2023Land On The South East Of Ropers Green Lane High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8QP
Received 22 Dec 2023159 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6JG
Received 23 Dec 2023112 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6DQ
Received 24 Dec 202384 Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham Medway ME8 6JF
Received 27 Dec 202335 Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8TF
Received 29 Dec 202314 Stopford Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4NG
Received 29 Dec 20236 Copperfield Road Rochester Medway ME1 2JB
Received 2 Jan 2024Riverview Grange Road Gillingham Medway ME7 2UN
Received 2 Jan 202430 Star Hill Rochester Medway ME1 1XB
Received 2 Jan 202499 Gardiner Street Gillingham Medway ME7 1DN
Received 3 Jan 202432 Tennyson Road Gillingham Medway ME7 5QD
Received 3 Jan 2024Chatham Waterfront Globe Lane Car Park Globe Lane Chatham Kent ME4 4HA
Received 3 Jan 2024Mountbatten House 28 Military Road Chatham Medway
Received 3 Jan 202469 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1RL
Received 3 Jan 20245 Gladwyn Close Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9TQ
Received 3 Jan 20241A Culpepper Road Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9RS
Received 3 Jan 202497-111 Rainham Road Gillingham Medway ME7 5NQ
Received 4 Jan 2024Eastcourt Works (MEMS) Beechings Way Twydall Gillingham Medway ME8 6PS
Received 4 Jan 2024Britton Farm Car Park Jeffery Street Gillingham Medway
Received 4 Jan 2024Records 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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