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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
5,515 approved · 2,693 refused · 1,131 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Apr 2010 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Aldi Foodstore 60-86 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4EJ
Received 4 Dec 2015666 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TY
Received 3 Dec 2015353 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3PQ
Received 3 Dec 2015Shakespeare Farm Shakespeare Farm Road St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RN
Received 4 Dec 201552 Kingshill Drive Hoo Rochester Kent ME3 9JW
Received 3 Dec 201537 Grain Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NB
Received 2 Dec 2015Newlands Farm Station Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RU
Received 3 Dec 2015Land Rear Of Existing Playground In Shipwrights Avenue (Rear Of Gardens Of 30-50 (Evens) Clarence Road) Chatham Kent
Received 3 Dec 201522 Watts Avenue Rochester ME1 1RX
Received 27 Nov 201520 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 27 Nov 201549 Yantlet Drive Strood Rochester ME2 2TH
Received 1 Dec 201513 Guinness Drive Wainscott Rochester ME3 8GE
Received 2 Dec 2015123 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7UJ
Received 2 Dec 2015208 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QG
Received 1 Dec 201526 Beaulieu Rise Rochester ME1 2PQ
Received 3 Dec 2015Former Tesco Store The Brook Chatham ME4 4NZ
Received 2 Dec 20156 Chapter Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PY
Received 2 Dec 201528 Linton Dann Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DQ
Received 2 Dec 2015Watermill Wharf Canal Road Strood Rochester ME2 4DR
Received 2 Dec 20155-7 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4TA
Received 2 Dec 2015Court Lodge Farm The Street Upper Stoke Rochester
Received 1 Dec 201511 Arundel Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UZ
Received 1 Dec 2015Wharf Farm Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester
Received 2 Dec 2015Former United Services PH 27 Arden Street Gillingham ME7 1HR
Received 2 Dec 2015Records 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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