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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
5,657 approved · 2,658 refused · 1,126 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Apr 2010 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
72 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LG
Received 21 Dec 201572 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LG
Received 21 Dec 201562 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AH
Received 10 Feb 2016137 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UA
Received 18 Dec 2015137 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UA
Received 18 Dec 201510-12 Crow Lane Rochester ME1 1RF
Received 16 Dec 20151 The Homestead Moor Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QB
Received 14 Dec 2015292 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HH
Received 14 Dec 201521 Guelder Rose Drive Hoo St Werburgh ME3 9FX
Received 22 Dec 201534 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AB
Received 21 Dec 201552 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AH
Received 21 Dec 201532 Willowbank Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TW
Received 18 Dec 20157 The Milk House Courtsole Farm Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7QS
Received 17 Dec 2015Six Separate Locations 1) Lower Lines Park 2) Royal Engineers Museum 3) Great Lines Heritage Park (Opposite Medway Park) 4) Below Naval War Memorial 5) Fort Amherst Caveyard 6) Upnor Castle Medway
Received 17 Dec 2015167 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1SF
Received 21 Dec 201519 Cooling Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SA
Received 21 Dec 2015Gemini House Maritime Close Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DJ
Received 21 Dec 201535 Harty Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NA
Received 18 Dec 2015Fidentia House Walter Burke Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 4RN
Received 18 Dec 201553 City Way Rochester ME1 2AX
Received 17 Dec 201559 Clavell Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9ND
Received 17 Dec 201544TWO Sports And Social Club Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AN
Received 17 Dec 2015277 Gillingham Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4QX
Received 18 Dec 201564 Eden Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HW
Received 18 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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