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7,060 approved · 2,093 refused · 1,006 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
54 Sussex Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NP
Received 4 Mar 20162 Watson Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9SH
Received 11 Mar 2016132 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 11 Mar 20166 Canadian Avenue Gillingham ME7 2DN
Received 10 Mar 201635 Sandringham Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8RP
Received 10 Mar 2016The Oast House Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9NR
Received 10 Mar 2016Medway Rugby Football Club Priestfields Recreation Ground Priestfields Rochester ME1 3AE
Received 10 Mar 2016162 Capstone Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 7PN
Received 9 Mar 201611 St Bartholomews Terrace Rochester ME1 1BX
Received 9 Mar 20168 Lavenda Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TB
Received 8 Mar 201621 Cranmere Court Strood Rochester ME2 4SF
Received 10 Mar 2016Mast And Mould Loft East Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 9 Mar 2016Former Temple High School Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DL
Received 9 Mar 201624 Broadway Gillingham ME8 6BE
Received 9 Mar 2016Pemberth Lodge Spekes Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RT
Received 8 Mar 201694 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PJ
Received 7 Mar 201669 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QX
Received 8 Mar 2016Land Between Roman Way And Knight Road East Of The Medway Valley Railway Line (Temple Waterfront) Strood Rochester Kent
Received 9 Mar 2016The Black House Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 8 Mar 2016The Black House Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 8 Mar 2016127 St Williams Way Rochester ME1 2PG
Received 8 Mar 2016Building L1 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham ME7 1RL
Received 7 Mar 201629 Wadlands Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RD
Received 7 Mar 2016B & Q Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester
Received 8 Mar 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage