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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
6,782 approved · 2,154 refused · 1,026 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jun 2012 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
351 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LW
Received 29 Jan 201678 Wylie Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EG
Received 22 Jan 20165 Tennyson Avenue Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JF
Received 29 Jan 201673 Kingfisher Drive Princes Park Chatham ME5 7NY
Received 29 Jan 201644 Cranford Close Rainham ME8 7HD
Received 28 Jan 201635 Riverside Sir Thomas Longley Road Medway City Estate ME2 4DP
Received 28 Jan 2016Felicita 60 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JJ
Received 28 Jan 2016103 Eastcourt Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6HJ
Received 25 Jan 201625 Amethyst Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9TX
Received 28 Jan 201625 Amethyst Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9TX
Received 28 Jan 201627 Winston Road Strood Rochester ME2 2QR
Received 27 Jan 2016Land To The Rear Of 9 Harvey Road (Formerly Known As 50 Roberts Road) Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0BA
Received 28 Jan 20162 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HT
Received 27 Jan 2016128 Warren Wood Road Rochester ME1 2UJ
Received 27 Jan 2016Land At 185 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0ND
Received 27 Jan 2016Cuxton Community Infant School Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EY
Received 26 Jan 2016Medway Filling Station 71 Rochester Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1AE
Received 26 Jan 2016811 Lordswood Lane Chatham Kent ME5 8JP
Received 26 Jan 201612 Elgin Gardens Strood Rochester ME2 2PU
Received 26 Jan 201623 Scholey Close Halling Rochester ME2 1JZ
Received 25 Jan 2016Unit 4 5 And 6 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PU
Received 26 Jan 2016Sycamores Upnor Road Upnor Rochester ME2 4UP
Received 27 Jan 201655 St Werburgh Crescent Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HL
Received 25 Jan 2016Slough Fort Avery Way Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QL
Received 26 Jan 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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