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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7,060 approved · 1,895 refused · 954 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2A Reform Road Luton Chatham ME4 5HP
Received 22 Feb 201711 Killick Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9ER
Received 22 Feb 201783 And 85 Sussex Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NW
Received 22 Feb 2017233 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QH
Received 23 Feb 2017131 Watling Street Strood Rochester ME2 3JJ
Received 22 Feb 201738 Meadowdown Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SU
Received 21 Feb 2017131 Broadway Gillingham ME8 6DR
Received 21 Feb 201744 Sharfleet Drive Strood Rochester ME2 2TY
Received 22 Feb 201760 Tanker Hill Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EU
Received 22 Feb 20174 Mayweed Avenue Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0PX
Received 22 Feb 201733 Meadow Close Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0UA
Received 21 Feb 201718 Cooling Road Strood Rochester ME2 4RG
Received 21 Feb 2017Vines Hall Crow Lane Rochester ME1 1RF
Received 20 Feb 20178 Willow Road Strood Rochester ME2 2LW
Received 20 Feb 201746 Wyles Road Chatham ME4 6LD
Received 20 Feb 2017131 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UH
Received 20 Feb 201774-76 Ingram Road Gillingham ME7 1SE
Received 20 Feb 2017772 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0LR
Received 20 Feb 2017Rainham Cricket Club Berengrave Park Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7NA
Received 20 Feb 20179 Corporation Road Gillingham ME7 1RH
Received 20 Feb 201796 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3TA
Received 20 Feb 2017Anthonys House (Unit 10 Cliffe Yard) Anthonys Way Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DY
Received 17 Feb 201763 Elmfield Gillingham ME8 6BN
Received 17 Feb 201768 Sturdee Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HN
Received 17 Feb 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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