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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7,060 approved · 2,078 refused · 997 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
24 Berber Road Strood Rochester ME2 3AN
Received 24 Mar 2016Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham
Received 21 Mar 2016Coal Yard 8 Westcourt Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5RD
Received 23 Mar 20161 York Farm Yard Lower Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UX
Received 11 Feb 20165 Medway Avenue High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TL
Received 23 Mar 201674 Grange Road Strood Rochester ME2 4DB
Received 23 Mar 2016The Brook Theatre Old Town Hall The Brook Chatham ME4 4SE
Received 23 Mar 2016The Brook Theatre Old Town Hall The Brook Chatham ME4 4SE
Received 23 Mar 2016Unit 3 Jetty 5 Dock Head Road Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 4ZJ
Received 23 Mar 2016Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime ME4 3ED
Received 22 Mar 2016Units GU14 & GU15 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Gillingham
Received 22 Mar 2016Pilkington Building Pembroke Central Central Avenue Chatham Maritime Gillingham
Received 22 Mar 2016Woodlands Primary School Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2DU
Received 18 Mar 20161 Marc Brunel Way Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4BH
Received 22 Mar 2016Land Adjacent To 1 Shelldrake Close Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0DH
Received 22 Mar 20162 Leafy Glade Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PJ
Received 22 Mar 2016Garage Site To The Rear Of 64 And 66 Robson Drive Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EA
Received 23 Mar 20162 Leafy Glade Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PJ
Received 22 Mar 20161A Victoria Street Gillingham ME7 1XF
Received 22 Mar 2016Garages To The Rear 2 Silverweed Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0UD
Received 22 Mar 2016Garage Site To The Rear Of 64 And 66 Robson Drive Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EA
Received 23 Mar 2016Garages To The Rear Of 17 To 31 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QB
Received 23 Mar 2016Garages To Rear Of 1-3 Lavender Close And Adjacent To 2F Mayweed Avenue Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0PX
Received 23 Mar 2016Garage To The Rear Of 53 Albatross Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2XP
Received 23 Mar 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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