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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7,082 approved · 1,775 refused · 907 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
54 Broadwood Road Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LX
Received 30 May 201727 Montrose Avenue Darland Chatham ME5 7HU
Received 30 May 2017Walsall House 40 High Street Upnor Rochester ME2 4XG
Received 23 May 201720 Otway Street Chatham ME4 5PG
Received 31 May 201740 Pretoria Road Gillingham ME7 4ND
Received 31 May 2017Land Adjacent To 1 Sedley Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QY
Received 29 May 201724 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AH
Received 30 May 201751 Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JE
Received 30 May 201728 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AA
Received 29 May 2017162 Kingston Crescent Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YZ
Received 30 May 201794 Essex Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AX
Received 30 May 2017Car Park Fronting Unit 7 Invicta Business Centre And Rear Of Unit 2 Bredgar Road Gillingham Kent
Received 26 May 2017311 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4JE
Received 26 May 2017Land South Of Ratcliffe Highway Junction With Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JD
Received 26 May 201772 Crestway Wayfield Chatham ME5 0BD
Received 26 May 201772 Crestway Wayfield Chatham ME5 0BD
Received 26 May 2017Cedar Primary School Cedar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JP
Received 25 May 2017Baytree Farm Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PG
Received 26 May 201795 Eden Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HP
Received 26 May 201754 Cheriton Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0ET
Received 25 May 201758 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HU
Received 25 May 201726 Springvale Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JG
Received 25 May 2017Westcourt Farm House Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7ST
Received 25 May 201713 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QB
Received 24 May 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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