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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.
8,015 approved · 1,176 refused · 609 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Redwood Close Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 8QL
Received 29 Apr 202516 Burrows Lane Middle Stoke Rochester Medway ME3 9RN
Received 29 Apr 202518 Melody Close Wigmore Gillingham Medway ME8 0NH
Received 29 Apr 202562 Fleet Road Rochester Medway ME1 2PX
Received 29 Apr 2025105 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3TE
Received 29 Apr 2025Invicta House 2A Kingswood Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1EA
Received 29 Apr 2025179 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1SF
Received 29 Apr 202525 Amethyst Avenue Horsted Chatham Medway ME5 9TX
Received 29 Apr 202515 Parker Close Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9NQ
Received 30 Apr 202540 Pilgrims Way Cuxton Rochester Medway ME2 1LG
Received 30 Apr 2025Alpha Roebuck Road Rochester Medway ME1 1UE
Received 30 Apr 2025Land Adjacent Fenn Street And Ratcliffe Highway St Mary Hoo Rochester Medway ME3 8RF
Received 30 Apr 2025Land West Of Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Medway ME3 8JX
Received 30 Apr 202546 Taverners Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9AN
Received 30 Apr 202549 Broadview Avenue Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 9DD
Received 30 Apr 20256 Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME9 7XA
Received 30 Apr 202532 Gill Avenue Wainscott Rochester Medway ME2 4SE
Received 30 Apr 2025Opposite 18 Grove Road Upper Halling Rochester Medway ME2 1HZ
Received 1 May 2025206A Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0JL
Received 1 May 2025Land At Town Road Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester
Received 1 May 202510 Nile Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4SE
Received 1 May 2025Boley Hill Rochester Medway
Received 2 May 2025Net Tex Industries Hoo Marina Industrial Estate Vicarage Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9LB
Received 2 May 2025Hoo Marina Industrial Estate Net Tex Industries Vicarage Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9LB
Received 2 May 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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