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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
7,082 approved · 1,735 refused · 891 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
40 Holcombe Road Chatham ME4 5RX
Received 20 Jun 201721 Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BA
Received 20 Jun 201721 Forest Drive Aylesford Chatham ME5 9PH
Received 19 Jun 2017Land At Chatham Waters Pier Road Gillingham
Received 19 Jun 201714 Gamelan Crescent Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9FN
Received 19 Jun 2017Kingsmead Park Allhallows Rochester ME3 9TD
Received 19 Jun 2017124 Pier Road Gillingham ME7 1UD
Received 19 Jun 2017129 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4EB
Received 16 Jun 2017Land Adjacent Brunel Saw Mill Marc Brunel Way Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TQ
Received 16 Jun 20176 Emerald Close Rochester ME1 2UE
Received 16 Jun 2017219 New Road Chatham ME4 4QA
Received 16 Jun 2017100 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PD
Received 16 Jun 201740 Harvesters Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PA
Received 16 Jun 20171 A & 1B Merlin Way Gillingham ME7 4JN
Received 16 Jun 2017Land At West Motney Way West Motney Way Gillingham ME8 7TZ
Received 16 Jun 2017153 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BT
Received 16 Jun 201738 Barleymow Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JZ
Received 16 Jun 2017Grove Villas 50 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RJ
Received 12 Jun 20172 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 15 Jun 201711 Sandy Dell Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SZ
Received 15 Jun 201720 Slade Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8RD
Received 14 Jun 201712 Bootham Close Strood Rochester ME2 2PG
Received 14 Jun 2017185 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4NB
Received 13 Jun 2017Land West Of Elm Avenue Chattenden Kent
Received 13 Jun 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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