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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7,082 approved · 1,775 refused · 907 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Trevine Boley Hill Rochester ME1 1TE
Received 23 May 20172 Love Lane Rochester ME1 1TN
Received 23 May 2017Crombie Gorse Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LS
Received 24 May 20176 Banks Road Strood Rochester ME2 4EA
Received 24 May 201789 Wayfield Road Wayfield Chatham ME5 0EP
Received 23 May 2017Land Rear Of 56-60 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JJ
Received 25 May 201737 Tern Crescent Strood Rochester ME2 2RG
Received 23 May 2017Shared Car Park Between 80 And 86 Port Rise Chatham ME4 6QA
Received 22 May 2017Garages To Rear Of 4 & 6 St Johns Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JT
Received 23 May 2017Plot 2A Sunderland Quay Culpepper Close Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4HN
Received 23 May 2017150-154 High Street Rochester Kent
Received 23 May 2017BP Oil UK Ltd Aviation Fuel Terminal Site Isle Of Grain
Received 22 May 2017Westcourt Farm Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7ST
Received 23 May 201748 High Street Rochester ME1 1LD
Received 22 May 201720 The Avenue St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3AE
Received 22 May 201714 Clavell Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NB
Received 22 May 20175 Fountain Road Strood Rochester ME2 3SJ
Received 22 May 201717 Puffin Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0EJ
Received 22 May 201712 Chestnut Road Strood Rochester ME2 2LH
Received 22 May 2017Holcombe Sports Club Curtis Way Rochester ME1 2TQ
Received 23 May 2017Kitchener Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 22 May 201710-40 & 48-86 Corporation Street Rochester ME1 1NH
Received 23 May 2017Land At Station Road (Bakersfield) Rainham Gillingham ME8 7QZ
Received 22 May 2017BP Oil UK Ltd Aviation Fuel Terminal Site Isle Of Grain
Received 19 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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