Understanding planning · 13 min read
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7,060 approved · 2,073 refused · 995 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jun 2012 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
125 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UA
Received 4 Apr 2016Southern House Capstone Road Chatham ME5 7QA
Received 1 Apr 2016205-217 (Lower Ground Floor Level) New Road Chatham ME4 4QA
Received 4 Apr 20168A Mansion Row Brompton Gillingham ME7 5SE
Received 4 Apr 201610 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DH
Received 1 Apr 2016Fort Pitt Grammar School Fort Pitt Hill Chatham ME4 6TJ
Received 4 Apr 2016125 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UA
Received 1 Apr 2016125 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UA
Received 1 Apr 2016765 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0LR
Received 4 Apr 20164 Stangate Road Strood Rochester ME2 2TU
Received 4 Apr 20169 Woodpecker Glade Parkwood Gillingham ME8 0JR
Received 1 Apr 20166 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 1 Apr 2016Walnut Tree Farm 155 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XT
Received 1 Apr 2016Court Lodge Farm The Street Upper Stoke Rochester ME3 9RT
Received 1 Apr 201611 Hurst Place Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AS
Received 31 Mar 201628 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4PG
Received 1 Apr 2016Orchard Cottage Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8EU
Received 1 Apr 201668 Hawbeck Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9TP
Received 30 Mar 2016Chandler Forest Timber Merchant 82 Jeffery Street Gillingham ME7 1DB
Received 1 Apr 2016St Andrews Park (Former Cemex Site) Land To The East Of The A228 Formby Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AW
Received 1 Apr 201645 Farnham Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8NR
Received 1 Apr 2016137 Sussex Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NR
Received 1 Apr 201610 Featherby Cottages Dial Road Gillingham ME7 2RP
Received 1 Apr 201615 Asquith Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JD
Received 1 Apr 2016Records 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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