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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7,060 approved · 1,936 refused · 964 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Manor Farm Cottage Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4UT
Received 30 Sept 2016243 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NW
Received 30 Sept 201643 Campleshon Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LF
Received 30 Sept 201634 Hyacinth Road Strood Rochester ME2 2YJ
Received 30 Sept 201686 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EY
Received 29 Sept 201625 Leyton Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3DA
Received 30 Sept 201627-29 High Street Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BJ
Received 29 Sept 201632 Mermaid Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7PT
Received 29 Sept 20164 Hudson Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DE
Received 30 Sept 2016Darland Farm Pear Tree Lane Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PP
Received 28 Sept 201627 The Fairway Rochester ME1 2PY
Received 26 Sept 201620 Keyes Avenue Chatham ME4 5TH
Received 28 Sept 2016123 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RR
Received 29 Sept 201637 Priory Road Gillingham ME8 6AS
Received 28 Sept 201686-88 High Street Chatham
Received 27 Sept 201639 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JQ
Received 20 Sept 201623 Rochester Airport Industrial Estate Laker Road Rochester ME1 3QX
Received 28 Sept 201611-31 Cross Street And Grieveson House Chatham Kent ME4 4LT
Received 28 Sept 2016294 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5XQ
Received 27 Sept 201651 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4NT
Received 28 Sept 201671 Durham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JJ
Received 22 Sept 201610 Thrush Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7TG
Received 27 Sept 2016121 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3RQ
Received 27 Sept 2016Nashenden Pumping Station Nashenden Farm Lane Rochester ME1 3TG
Received 26 Sept 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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