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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.
7,676 approved · 1,109 refused · 579 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0AP
Received 17 May 2024346 Grange Road Gillingham Medway ME7 2UB
Received 17 May 2024268 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6JL
Received 17 May 20245 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HE
Received 17 May 20245 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0HE
Received 17 May 202439 Templars Drive Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3FD
Received 17 May 20241 The Ridgeway Chatham Medway ME4 6PD
Received 17 May 202412 Railway Street Chatham Medway ME4 4JL
Received 17 May 202427 Kempton Close Lordswood Chatham Medway ME5 8PW
Received 20 May 202410 Edgewater St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3BH
Received 20 May 2024115 Windmill Street Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3XL
Received 18 May 2024127A Shakespeare Road Gillingham Medway ME7 5QJ
Received 20 May 20241 Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4HP
Received 20 May 2024Fleet House Upnor Road Upnor Rochester Medway ME2 4UP
Received 20 May 2024193 Wilson Avenue Rochester Medway ME1 2SN
Received 20 May 2024Former Splashes Leisure Pool Bloors Lane Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7EG
Received 20 May 202443 Sandling Way St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3AZ
Received 20 May 202471 Boundary Road Chatham Medway ME4 6UG
Received 20 May 2024Former St John Fisher Rc Comprehensive School Ordnance Street Chatham Medway ME4 6SG
Received 20 May 2024Greenacre Academy 157 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 0LP
Received 20 May 2024Temple Waterfront Phase 2 Land Between Roman Way And Knight Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2BA
Received 20 May 2024299 High Street Chatham Medway ME4 4BN
Received 20 May 2024Danecourt School Hotel Road Gillingham Medway ME8 6AA
Received 20 May 2024M2 Commuter Car Park Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0LU
Received 20 May 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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