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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7,082 approved · 1,782 refused · 913 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
47 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3SZ
Received 16 May 2017Rear Of Mulver House 636 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PL
Received 16 May 201713 Oxford Road Gillingham ME7 4BP
Received 16 May 2017Manor House Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4UT
Received 16 May 2017Manor House Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4UT
Received 16 May 2017167 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JG
Received 16 May 20171 Harvel Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3JU
Received 15 May 2017Newton Close Resource Centre Sultan Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8TJ
Received 15 May 201745A James Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1DJ
Received 15 May 201731 Colchester Close Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HQ
Received 15 May 2017Part Of Phase 4 (Buildings C&D) Phase 5 (Buildings H&J) And Phase 6 (Building P) Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RL
Received 15 May 2017Fort Borstal Hill Road Borstal Rochester
Received 16 May 2017Riverview Manor Wouldham Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3TL
Received 15 May 201729 Maryland Court Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8QY
Received 15 May 2017169 Cecil Road Rochester ME1 2HW
Received 12 May 2017Chatham Golf Centre Street End Road Wayfield Chatham ME5 0BG
Received 12 May 201750 Pembroke Court Pembroke Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4EL
Received 15 May 201773 Wickham Street Rochester ME1 2HH
Received 15 May 201732 Northwood Avenue High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SX
Received 15 May 20176 Calthorpe Mews Prospect Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3BZ
Received 15 May 2017St Marys Island Ce Primary School Island Way West St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3ST
Received 12 May 2017269 Napier Road Gillingham ME7 4LY
Received 15 May 2017Unit 4 Steelfields Gads Hill Gillingham
Received 15 May 201715A King George Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0TX
Received 15 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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