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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
7,060 approved · 1,912 refused · 956 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2013 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
417 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LL
Received 1 Feb 201738 Castle Avenue Rochester ME1 2DU
Received 2 Feb 201740 Quinnell Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JW
Received 2 Feb 2017Rookery Lodge Thatchers Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RG
Received 2 Feb 20172 Archbishops Crescent Gillingham ME7 2WL
Received 2 Feb 2017Friendly Phils Unit N9 Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Gillingham ME7 3PD
Received 1 Feb 2017The Railway 113 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7SF
Received 1 Feb 201710 Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Sittingbourne ME9 7XA
Received 2 Feb 20178 Woolwich Close Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HU
Received 2 Feb 201728 Brendon Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8JG
Received 1 Feb 201762 Chalfont Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DN
Received 1 Feb 201728 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QY
Received 1 Feb 201729 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6TR
Received 1 Feb 20172A Hostier Close Halling Rochester ME2 1ES
Received 1 Feb 2017Former Earl Estate Community Centre Albatross Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2XR
Received 1 Feb 2017Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road /South Of Oastview Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 1 Feb 2017Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road /South Of Oastview Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 1 Feb 2017Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road /South Of Oastview Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 1 Feb 2017Land To The East Of Mierscourt Road /South Of Oastview Rainham Kent ME8 8JF
Received 1 Feb 2017Court Lodge Farm The Street Upper Stoke Rochester Kent ME3 9RT
Received 31 Jan 2017Unit 5 Jetty 5 Dock Head Road Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 4ZJ
Received 30 Jan 201758 Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TG
Received 31 Jan 2017National Grid Property Holdings Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AE
Received 31 Jan 201745 James Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1DJ
Received 30 Jan 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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