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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Medway website
7,094 approved · 1,473 refused · 762 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 9 Jan 201818 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UA
Received 9 Jan 201826 St Andrews Walk Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QY
Received 10 Jan 2018Land Adjacent To 1 Rowland Avenue Gillingham Kent ME7 3DL
Received 9 Jan 20185-7 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4TA
Received 9 Jan 2018Former St Matthews Playing Field Borstal Street Borstal Rochester ME1 3HJ
Received 10 Jan 2018Land At North Sea Terminal ('Triangle Land') Salt Lane Rochester Cliffe ME3 7SX
Received 9 Jan 2018118 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YE
Received 9 Jan 2018393 High Street Chatham ME4 4PG
Received 8 Jan 2018Darland Farm Pear Tree Lane Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PP
Received 9 Jan 20183 New Road Chatham ME4 4QJ
Received 8 Jan 20184 Mountbatten Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0JX
Received 8 Jan 20186 Drayton Close High Halstow Rochester ME3 8DW
Received 8 Jan 20183 Chislet Walk Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QH
Received 8 Jan 201863 Redwing Road Princes Park Chatham ME5 7TH
Received 8 Jan 2018117 Constitution Road Luton Chatham ME5 7DW
Received 5 Jan 201855 Rochester Crescent Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JH
Received 5 Jan 201810 Sandy Dell Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SZ
Received 5 Jan 2018Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 8 Jan 2018Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham ME4 4SW
Received 8 Jan 2018393 High Street Chatham ME4 4PG
Received 8 Jan 2018Land At 185 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0ND
Received 8 Jan 201821 Cardens Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8TU
Received 5 Jan 201833 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LR
Received 5 Jan 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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