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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7,082 approved · 1,782 refused · 913 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To 28 Cunningham Crescent Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ES
Received 19 May 201711 Hazel Grove Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ED
Received 22 May 2017Walderslade Medical Centre Doctors Surgery Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 7PQ
Received 22 May 2017Land To Rear Of 20 Mount Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3NQ
Received 18 May 2017137 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LF
Received 18 May 2017Flats 19-22 Mercury Close Rochester ME1 3AT
Received 18 May 2017Westmoor Barn Moor Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QF
Received 18 May 2017St Andrews Park (Former Cemex Site) Land To West And East Side Of A228 Formby Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AW
Received 18 May 201738 Meadowdown Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SU
Received 18 May 2017Hill House 11 Central Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HF
Received 18 May 2017134 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LG
Received 18 May 2017Garages At Hoopers Place Hoopers Road Rochester ME1 1YH
Received 18 May 201727 Bayswater Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TF
Received 17 May 20177 Whinchat Way St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3AF
Received 17 May 2017Unit 20 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PU
Received 18 May 201786 Allington Road Gillingham ME8 6PH
Received 18 May 201719 Haig Avenue Rochester ME1 2RZ
Received 18 May 2017Plot Adjacent 52 Kingfisher Drive Princes Park Chatham ME5 7NY
Received 18 May 20172 Connaught Road Luton Chatham ME4 5DJ
Received 18 May 2017328 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7QY
Received 17 May 2017Land At Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Main Road Rochester ME3 9ND
Received 17 May 201719 Rochester Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1AD
Received 17 May 2017221 High Street Chatham ME4 4BG
Received 17 May 201719 Blackthorne Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LN
Received 17 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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