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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7,060 approved · 1,850 refused · 937 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
24 Harvesters Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PA
Received 31 Mar 2017Haywards House 106 Corporation Street Rochester ME1 1NJ
Received 30 Mar 2017Court Lodge Farm The Street Stoke Rochester ME3 9RT
Received 31 Mar 2017Little Oak Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Sittingbourne ME9 7XA
Received 30 Mar 20171 Ropers Farm Ropers Green Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8AD
Received 30 Mar 201732 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JE
Received 30 Apr 2017Phase 2 Strood Riverside Site Situated Approximately 250M North Of Rochester Bridge Bordered By Kingswear Gardens To The South River Medway To The East The North Kent Line Railway To West And Houses Along Cranmere Court To The North Strood
Received 30 Mar 2017Former Medway Council Civic Centre Site Bounded By The A2 (High Street) The Esplanade The River Medway Jane's Creek And The Medway Valley Rail Line Strood Kent
Received 30 Mar 201754 Durham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JN
Received 30 Mar 201776 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HQ
Received 29 Mar 2017104 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TS
Received 30 Mar 2017Royal Engineers Museum Prince Arthur Road Brompton Gillingham ME7 1UR
Received 28 Mar 2017Land Adjacent 305 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JT
Received 30 Mar 201776 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HQ
Received 30 Mar 201740 High Street Rochester ME1 1LJ
Received 30 Mar 201740 High Street Rochester ME1 1LJ
Received 30 Mar 201712 Laurel Road Gillingham ME7 1NT
Received 30 Mar 2017304 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SS
Received 29 Mar 2017155 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DW
Received 29 Mar 2017Skinner Street Jenkins Dale Chatham Kent ME4 5RB
Received 29 Mar 201712 Knole Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PJ
Received 29 Mar 20174 Peacock Rise Walderslade Chatham ME5 8RN
Received 29 Mar 2017Plots 1 & 2 (Formerly 85) Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QT
Received 28 Mar 2017Car Park Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester
Received 29 Mar 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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