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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7,060 approved · 2,088 refused · 1,006 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cypress Court Gillingham Kent ME7 2AL
Received 14 Mar 201685 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PN
Received 14 Mar 201660 The Ridgeway Chatham ME4 6PB
Received 14 Mar 201657 Fallowfield Wayfield Chatham ME5 0DX
Received 14 Mar 201653 Clavell Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9ND
Received 14 Mar 201618 & 19 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HL
Received 14 Mar 2016153 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JE
Received 11 Mar 2016Flanders Farm Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8QE
Received 14 Mar 201638 Tyler Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LU
Received 14 Mar 201644 Two Sports & Social Club Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AN
Received 11 Mar 2016215-217 High Street Chatham ME4 4BG
Received 14 Mar 201621 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 8 Mar 201617 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UE
Received 11 Mar 2016Telecommunications Site 51542 Siloam Farm Private Road Off Mierscourt Road Rainham Kent ME8 8PJ
Received 10 Mar 2016School House 20 Crow Lane Rochester ME1 1RF
Received 11 Mar 2016Freemasons Hall Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4NT
Received 10 Mar 201679 South Avenue Gillingham ME8 6EE
Received 11 Mar 201610 Meadow Close Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0UA
Received 11 Mar 2016101 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4QG
Received 11 Mar 2016347 Maidstone Road Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0HU
Received 11 Mar 20164 Grove Road Gillingham ME7 2TX
Received 10 Mar 2016Gillingham Park Adj To Park Avenue/Oxford Road (Urn 3408)
Received 10 Mar 2016Gillingham Park Gillingham Opp 11 Park Ave. (Urn 3386)
Received 10 Mar 2016Gillingham Park Opposite 41 Park Avenue (Urn 3313)
Received 10 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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