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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7,060 approved · 1,845 refused · 932 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Copper House Farm Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7UQ
Received 7 Apr 201711 Widgeon Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SJ
Received 6 Apr 2017Corner Of Danes Hill And Dial Road Gillingham Kent ME7 2RS
Received 7 Apr 201710-40 & 48-86 Corporation Street Rochester ME1 1NN
Received 6 Apr 2017The Fox 124 Ordnance Street Chatham ME4 6SE
Received 6 Apr 201717 Geneva Avenue Gillingham ME8 6EJ
Received 6 Apr 20172 Saxon Close Strood Rochester ME2 3RR
Received 6 Apr 2017Chatham Quayside (Formerly Colonial House) Quayside Chatham ME4 4YY
Received 10 Apr 2017Chatham Quayside (Formerly Colonial House) Quayside Chatham ME4 4YY
Received 10 Apr 201781 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 3BJ
Received 7 Apr 201719 Mitchell Avenue Chatham ME4 6HJ
Received 7 Apr 2017Land Adjacent To 27 Knavesacre Court Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QA
Received 7 Apr 201737 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NB
Received 7 Apr 2017The Birches 152 Snodhurst Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 0TN
Received 6 Apr 2017176 Snodhurst Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 0TN
Received 6 Apr 201750 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HN
Received 5 Apr 20173 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BE
Received 6 Apr 2017Land Adjacent To Tesco Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 6 Apr 20171 Davy Court Rochester ME1 1AE
Received 5 Apr 201789 Avery Way Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QW
Received 5 Apr 2017Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NY
Received 5 Apr 2017Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NY
Received 5 Apr 201718 Norton Grove Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 9BQ
Received 6 Apr 201789 Brambletree Crescent Borstal Rochester ME1 3LQ
Received 4 Apr 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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