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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7,083 approved · 1,668 refused · 864 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
100 Jarrett Avenue Wainscott Rochester ME2 4NG
Received 17 Jul 2017Lamposts On Long Catlis Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PN
Received 17 Jul 2017Land Adjacent To 112 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Rainham ME7 2XS
Received 17 Jul 201726 Bogarde Drive Wainscott Rochester
Received 17 Jul 2017223 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TW
Received 14 Jul 2017124 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AU
Received 17 Jul 2017Unit 1A Jetty 5 Dock Head Road Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4ZJ
Received 17 Jul 201738 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PL
Received 14 Jul 201731 Cardens Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8TU
Received 13 Jul 20174 Harold Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EE
Received 14 Jul 201796-100 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2DH
Received 14 Jul 2017Wei Hai 139 St Williams Way Rochester ME1 2PG
Received 13 Jul 201713 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UE
Received 13 Jul 201740 Little Victory Mount St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3TB
Received 13 Jul 20172 Norwood Close Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QJ
Received 13 Jul 201765 Ingle Road Chatham ME4 5SD
Received 14 Jul 20179 Hook Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9TP
Received 12 Jul 2017Pamela Court 94-96 Jeffery Street Gillingham ME7 1PJ
Received 12 Jul 2017Frindsbury Service Station 103 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4JD
Received 12 Jul 201747-49 High Street Rochester ME1 1LN
Received 13 Jul 201720 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SP
Received 12 Jul 201767 Aintree Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PQ
Received 13 Jul 2017Travellers Tan Sharnal Street High Halstow Rochester ME3 8QR
Received 12 Jul 2017Turkey Hall Farm Malmaynes Hall Road Stoke Rochester ME3 9SG
Received 11 Jul 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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