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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
7,060 approved · 1,953 refused · 971 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Aug 2012 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Danson Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7EW
Received 8 Aug 201645 Leeward Road Rochester ME1 2NE
Received 5 Aug 2016221 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QX
Received 26 Jul 2016Rear Of Lyons House 9 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 9 Aug 2016The Captains House Pembroke Chatham Maritime Kent ME4 4UF
Received 9 Aug 20165 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BT
Received 8 Aug 20163 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BT
Received 8 Aug 201618 Northwood Avenue High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SX
Received 9 Aug 20161 Mountbatten Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0JY
Received 8 Aug 201620 James Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1DH
Received 9 Aug 2016132 Brompton Lane Strood Rochester ME2 3BA
Received 21 Oct 20162 Tanglewood Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PH
Received 13 Oct 2016Land North Of Peninsula Way Main Road Chattenden Rochester Kent
Received 13 Oct 2016Land To The West Of The Hundred Of Hoo Academy Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HH
Received 13 Oct 2016Land To The West Of The Hundred Of Hoo Academy Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HH
Received 13 Oct 2016Land To The West Of The Hundred Of Hoo Academy Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HH
Received 13 Oct 2016Land To The West Of The Hundred Of Hoo Acadamy Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HH
Received 13 Oct 2016Land To The West Of The Hundred Of Hoo Acadamy Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HH
Received 13 Oct 2016281 Lonsdale Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9JT
Received 12 Oct 2016765 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0LR
Received 19 Aug 2016233 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JU
Received 19 Aug 2016Land Adjacent To A228 Roundabout Between Halling Primary School And Whittings Farm Rochester Kent ME2 1DA
Received 19 Aug 2016Former Temple School Brompton Farm Road Strood Kent ME2 3NP
Received 11 Aug 2016111 High Street Rochester ME1 1JS
Received 8 Aug 2016Records 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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