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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.
7,921 approved · 1,163 refused · 604 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Boley Hill House Boley Hill Rochester Medway ME1 1TE
Received 17 Mar 2025132 High Street Gillingham Medway ME7 1AS
Received 17 Mar 20253 Hillside Road Chatham Medway ME4 4PA
Received 17 Mar 202533A Cooling Road High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8SA
Received 18 Mar 2025104 Richmond Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1LR
Received 18 Mar 20253 East Street Chatham Medway ME4 5NJ
Received 18 Mar 202557 Queendown Avenue Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9PD
Received 18 Mar 20256 Prospect Row Brompton Gillingham Medway ME7 5AL
Received 18 Mar 202554 Kingswood Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1DX
Received 18 Mar 202543 Higham Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8BE
Received 18 Mar 202556 Tern Crescent Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2RG
Received 18 Mar 2025The Victory Academy Magpie Hall Road Chatham Medway ME4 5JB
Received 18 Mar 20255 Burns Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1NF
Received 18 Mar 2025Boley Hill House Boley Hill Rochester Medway ME1 1TE
Received 18 Mar 2025681 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 3QJ
Received 18 Mar 2025Stone House Farm Dillywood Lane Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8EN
Received 18 Mar 2025Stone House Farm Dillywood Lane Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8EN
Received 18 Mar 2025283 Barnsole Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4JD
Received 18 Mar 2025Communal Area Rear Of 30 Wollaston Close Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9SH
Received 18 Mar 2025Land Adjacent To 117 Walsingham Close Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9SN
Received 18 Mar 2025BAE Systems Airport Works Marconi Way Rochester Medway ME1 2XX
Received 18 Mar 2025Anchored 277 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 0NH
Received 18 Mar 202532 Wilson Avenue Rochester Medway ME1 2RL
Received 18 Mar 202522 Vicarage Close Halling Rochester Medway ME2 1BH
Received 18 Mar 2025Records 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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