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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
5,400 approved · 2,961 refused · 1,163 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Apr 2010 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 18 Aug 2015Orchard Bungalow Station Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RU
Received 18 Aug 201533 Tern Crescent Strood Rochester ME2 2RG
Received 18 Aug 2015St Peter And St Pauls Church The Street Stoke Rochester
Received 18 Aug 201578 Livingstone Road Gillingham ME7 2EJ
Received 18 Aug 201529 Goudhurst Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6LG
Received 18 Aug 20151 Salisbury Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BH
Received 17 Aug 2015118 Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BP
Received 17 Aug 201589 Columbine Road Strood Rochester ME2 2YB
Received 12 Aug 201536 North Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UH
Received 17 Aug 2015371-375 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HX
Received 14 Aug 20155 Sir Evelyn Road Rochester ME1 3NB
Received 17 Aug 201547 Gatcombe Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7RD
Received 17 Aug 2015Felicita 60 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JJ
Received 17 Aug 20152B Thames Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BN
Received 17 Aug 201594-96 Duncan Road Gillingham
Received 17 Aug 201528 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BG
Received 12 Aug 2015129 Sturdee Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HG
Received 13 Aug 20153 Holmes Close High Halstow Rochester ME3 8RY
Received 17 Aug 2015137 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UA
Received 13 Aug 2015The Ship High Street Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9RD
Received 14 Aug 2015Stoke Garage High Street Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9RD
Received 17 Aug 201532 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DS
Received 14 Aug 2015Land At The Junction Of Maidstone Road And Sir Evelyn Road Rochester Kent
Received 12 Aug 2015Records 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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