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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
5,480 approved · 2,791 refused · 1,145 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To 2 Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BH
Received 27 Oct 2015135 Britton Street Gillingham ME7 5ES
Received 28 Oct 2015Kings Orchard The Precinct Rochester ME1 1TG
Received 27 Oct 2015206 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NP
Received 27 Oct 2015Brook House 9-11 The Brook Chatham ME4 4LG
Received 26 Oct 201549 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DP
Received 27 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To 11 Granary Close Rear Of 92-96 Parkfield Road And Adjacent To Caversham Close Rainham Kent ME8 7SG
Received 27 Oct 20158 City Way Rochester ME1 2AB
Received 27 Oct 201536 Hughes Drive Wainscott ME2 4LN
Received 26 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To 18 Cardens Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8TU
Received 27 Oct 20151 Castlemaine Avenue Gillingham ME7 2QA
Received 26 Oct 201510 Partridge Drive St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3PA
Received 26 Oct 20151 Tappan Drive St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3SY
Received 27 Oct 2015Land To The Rear/Side Of 1 & 2 Gladstone Cottages Buckland Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RS
Received 26 Oct 201515 Beacon Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AP
Received 26 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To 15 Mansion Row Brompton Gillingham ME7 5SE
Received 27 Oct 2015Upnor Road Upnor Depot Rochester Kent ME2 4AY
Received 27 Oct 201551 Trubridge Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EN
Received 26 Oct 20152 Egret Close St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3EG
Received 26 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To Hastings Arms 18 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Kent ME7 2YD
Received 27 Oct 2015Temple Waterfront Off Roman Way Strood Kent
Received 26 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To 803 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JP
Received 26 Oct 2015Temple Waterfront Off Roman Way Strood Kent
Received 26 Oct 2015Timber Barn West Street Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7TQ
Received 26 Oct 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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