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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
7,083 approved · 1,588 refused · 822 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harbourmasters Yard Pier Approach Road Gillingham ME7 1RX
Received 21 Sept 2017Hollywood Bowl Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 22 Sept 2017Hollywood Bowl Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 22 Sept 2017Rochester Airport Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SD
Received 21 Sept 2017Land South Of Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 7TP
Received 21 Sept 201741 Chipstead Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9SQ
Received 21 Sept 201711 Sir Evelyn Road Rochester ME1 3NB
Received 20 Sept 201739 Seagull Road Strood Rochester ME2 2RH
Received 21 Sept 201723 Rowland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3DL
Received 21 Sept 2017132 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AG
Received 21 Sept 201726 Chatsworth Drive Strood Rochester ME2 4RH
Received 19 Sept 2017132 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AG
Received 21 Sept 201716 St Pauls Close Marlowe Park Strood Rochester Kent ME2 2QQ
Received 20 Sept 201730 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BG
Received 21 Sept 201793-95 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EY
Received 21 Sept 201715D Rainham Shopping Centre Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HW
Received 20 Sept 2017315 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 20 Sept 2017Mountbatten House 28 Military Road Chatham
Received 19 Sept 201794 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 20 Sept 201728 Roosevelt Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ER
Received 21 Sept 2017Plot 1 London Medway Commercial Park Hoo St Werburgh ME3 9ND
Received 20 Sept 2017Manor Farm Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 20 Sept 201797 Dale Street Chatham ME4 6QH
Received 22 Sept 2017Kemaman Forge Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SL
Received 20 Sept 2017Records 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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