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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
7,082 approved · 1,758 refused · 897 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit C Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester ME2 2AB
Received 6 Jun 201735 Mermaid Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7PT
Received 6 Jun 2017Unit C Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester ME2 2AB
Received 6 Jun 201710 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HN
Received 6 Jun 201716 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JE
Received 5 Jun 201716 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JE
Received 5 Jun 2017Rear Of 2 - 4 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SP
Received 5 Jun 201750 Franklin Road Gillingham ME7 4DF
Received 5 Jun 201719 Ringlet Road St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3RG
Received 5 Jun 2017195 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HT
Received 5 Jun 201731 Linwood Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3TP
Received 5 Jun 2017Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road / South Of Oastview Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 5 Jun 2017Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 5 Jun 2017214 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 5 Jun 2017105 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HP
Received 5 Jun 201736 The Causeway St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3SR
Received 5 Jun 201710 McKenzie Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8DL
Received 5 Jun 201729 Wellington Road Gillingham ME7 4NN
Received 5 Jun 2017Cristallo 232 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HG
Received 5 Jun 20176 Rutland Place Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LG
Received 5 Jun 2017354 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JT
Received 2 Jun 2017Dockside Outlet Centre (Units GU12 And FU69-70) Maritime Way Chatham ME4 3LD
Received 5 Jun 2017Dockside Outlet Centre (Units GU12 And FU69-70) Maritime Way Chatham ME4 3LD
Received 5 Jun 2017Dockside Outlet Centre (Unit GU12) Maritime Way Chatham ME4 3LD
Received 3 Jun 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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