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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
5,500 approved · 2,716 refused · 1,134 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Dorrit Way Rochester ME1 2QE
Received 26 Nov 201546 Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PJ
Received 26 Nov 20151 Brasted Court Strood Rochester ME2 3NE
Received 26 Nov 2015Site Adj To 2-14 Davey Court The Terrace No.20 And Rear Of 2-20 Victoria Street 2-8 Star Hill And 186-196 High Street Rochester
Received 27 Nov 2015110 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8AR
Received 27 Nov 2015Land Adjacent To 33-40 Woolaston Close Parkwood Gillingham Kent
Received 26 Nov 2015Land Between Roman Way And Knight Road East Of The Medway Valley Railway Line (Temple Waterfront) Strood Kent
Received 27 Nov 2015Land Between 34 And 35 Heathfield Close Chatham
Received 24 Nov 201510 Central Park Gardens Chatham ME4 6UT
Received 24 Nov 201524 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AA
Received 24 Nov 2015TT Litho Printers Ltd. Corporation Street (Rear Of 145 High Street ME1 1EL) Rochester Kent ME1 1NN
Received 25 Nov 201533 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1UF
Received 26 Nov 2015262 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HU
Received 26 Nov 2015260 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HU
Received 26 Nov 2015Horsted Junior School Barberry Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9TF
Received 25 Nov 2015Crown Wharf Whitewall Way Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4EP
Received 26 Nov 2015First And Second Floors 54 Green Street Gillingham ME7 1XA
Received 25 Nov 20159 Devon Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7LG
Received 25 Nov 201524 Castle Avenue Rochester ME1 2DU
Received 24 Nov 2015Coal Yard 8 Westcourt Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5RD
Received 25 Nov 2015102 Cedar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JP
Received 26 Nov 2015First And Second Floors 54A Green Street Gillingham ME7 1XA
Received 25 Nov 2015374 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JS
Received 24 Nov 20159 Sunnymead Avenue Gillingham ME7 2DY
Received 24 Nov 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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