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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7,083 approved · 1,654 refused · 859 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cliff Auto Repairs Fenn Corner Ratcliffe Highway St Mary Hoo Rochester Gillingham ME3 8RF
Received 27 Jul 2017Land Adjacent To 110 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4JB
Received 27 Jul 20175 Milsted Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6SX
Received 26 Jul 20176 St Bartholomews Terrace Rochester ME1 1BX
Received 26 Jul 2017Unit 5 Block T Pier Road Gillingham ME7 1RZ
Received 26 Jul 201727 Bayswater Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TF
Received 24 Jul 2017354 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SD
Received 26 Jul 20171 Gibraltar Cottages Ham Lane Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3JJ
Received 26 Jul 2017274 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PT
Received 26 Jul 201718A New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 26 Jul 2017271 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4JD
Received 26 Jul 2017Land Adjacent To 15 Mansion Row Brompton Gillingham ME7 5SE
Received 26 Jul 201730 Brissenden Close Upnor Rochester ME2 4XW
Received 25 Jul 2017Land East Of The Kitchener Statue Kitchener Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 25 Jul 201763 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DP
Received 25 Jul 201728 Sussex Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NJ
Received 25 Jul 20172 Poplicans Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EH
Received 26 Jul 2017145 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DW
Received 26 Jul 2017Unit 5 Pier 5 Dock Head Road The Quays Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4ZJ
Received 25 Jul 201798 Patrixbourne Avenue Twydall Gillingham ME8 6TY
Received 25 Jul 201744TWO Sports And Social Club Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AN
Received 25 Jul 2017247 City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 24 Jul 201723 Vicarage Road Halling Rochester ME2 1BG
Received 21 Jul 2017Water Tower Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NY
Received 24 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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