Understanding planning · 13 min read
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7,094 approved · 1,489 refused · 764 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
153 City Way Rochester ME1 2BE
Received 21 Dec 2017413-415 High Street Chatham ME4 4NU
Received 21 Dec 2017Land South Of Ratcliffe Highway Junction With Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JD
Received 22 Dec 2017141 Cecil Road Rochester ME1 2HW
Received 22 Dec 201712 Horsted Way Horsted Rochester ME1 2XY
Received 22 Dec 201711 Horseshoe Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QU
Received 22 Dec 2017Beaconhurst Mortimers Avenue Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JT
Received 21 Dec 2017Land South Of Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TP
Received 21 Dec 2017402 City Way Rochester ME1 2BQ
Received 21 Dec 2017Land At Walnut Tree Farm North Of Britannia Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SQ
Received 21 Dec 20174 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 21 Dec 201728 Deanwood Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NH
Received 20 Dec 20179 Lancelot Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YU
Received 20 Dec 2017Garages At Hoopers Place Rochester Kent
Received 21 Dec 2017The Old Deanery The Precinct Rochester ME1 1SX
Received 21 Dec 2017The Old Deanery The Precinct Rochester ME1 1SX
Received 21 Dec 201790 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BD
Received 21 Dec 201790 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BD
Received 21 Dec 201757 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NB
Received 20 Dec 201711 Burleigh Close Strood Rochester ME2 3TQ
Received 19 Dec 201767 Pagitt Street Chatham ME4 6RE
Received 20 Dec 2017BP Oil UK Limited Aviation Fuel Terminal Grain Road Rochester ME3 0HA
Received 19 Dec 2017BP Oil UK Limited Aviation Fuel Terminal Grain Road Rochester ME3 0HA
Received 19 Dec 201735 Harold Avenue Gillingham ME7 2JQ
Received 19 Dec 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage