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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7,060 approved · 2,128 refused · 1,014 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To 18 Cardens Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8TU
Received 26 Feb 201630 Woodlark Road St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3NU
Received 24 Feb 2016Pump House Childs Farm Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DR
Received 24 Feb 201617 Blaker Avenue Rochester ME1 2RU
Received 29 Feb 2016Land Fronting The Paddock Rear Of 5 New Road Chatham Kent ME4 4QJ
Received 23 Feb 2016Land To The Rear Of 7-13 New Road (Fronting The Paddock) Chatham Kent ME4 4QL
Received 23 Feb 2016Plot 2A Culpeper Close Medway City Estate Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4HN
Received 26 Feb 2016Land To The Rear Of 7-13 New Road (Fronting The Paddock) Chatham Kent ME4 4QL
Received 23 Feb 2016Land Fronting The Paddock Rear Of 5 New Road Chatham Kent ME4 4QJ
Received 23 Feb 201618 Toad Hall Crescent Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 8PA
Received 25 Feb 201612 Darland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AL
Received 25 Feb 20169 Clematis Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TB
Received 25 Feb 2016Parkwood Infant School Deanwood Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LP
Received 25 Feb 2016100 City Way Rochester ME1 2AF
Received 23 Feb 2016The Alma 48 Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2AQ
Received 25 Feb 2016611 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3QL
Received 25 Feb 2016Garages To Rear Of 1-3 Lavender Close And Adjacent To 2F Mayweed Avenue Chatham Kent
Received 25 Feb 2016Garages To Rear Of 2 Silverweed Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0UD
Received 25 Feb 201645 Kingswood Road Gillingham ME7 1DZ
Received 22 Feb 2016Former Southern Water Site Capstone Road Chatham ME5 7QA
Received 25 Feb 201697 Elaine Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YP
Received 25 Feb 201633 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NA
Received 22 Feb 2016Appletrees 6 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME4 6NY
Received 25 Feb 2016Garages To Rear Of 17 - 31 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QB
Received 25 Feb 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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