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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.
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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5,480 approved · 2,791 refused · 1,145 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
17 Tanglewood Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PH
Received 26 Oct 2015Corner Of Roman Way And Cuxton Road (Rear Of Unit 10) Ballard Business Park Cuxton Road Rochester Kent
Received 22 Oct 2015Sectors 10 11/15 And 13 Island Way West St Marys Island Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent
Received 23 Oct 2015Rainham Mark Grammar School Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AJ
Received 23 Oct 2015Land At Roman Way (Opposite Junction Of Norman Close) Medway Valley Park Cuxton Rochester Kent
Received 22 Oct 201533 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HN
Received 22 Oct 201514 Miskin Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EB
Received 22 Oct 2015156 Ploughmans Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LR
Received 22 Oct 201537 Coppice Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8RJ
Received 16 Oct 2015Former Southern Water Site Southern House Capstone Road Chatham ME5 7QA
Received 20 Oct 2015144 Third Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LY
Received 21 Oct 201515 Sheriff Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 9PU
Received 21 Oct 2015The Black House Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 22 Oct 2015Adult Education Centre (Including Number 46) Green Street Gillingham Kent ME7 5TJ
Received 7 Oct 201524 Shepherds Gate Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TG
Received 20 Oct 2015378 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7QZ
Received 20 Oct 20158 Hawbeck Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9TS
Received 16 Oct 2015Land Between Roman Way And Knight Road East Of The Medway Valley Railway Line (Temple Waterfront) Strood Rochester Kent
Received 21 Oct 2015Temple Waterfront Off Roman Way Strood Kent
Received 21 Oct 2015250 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HG
Received 20 Oct 201592 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SX
Received 20 Oct 201576 Ivy Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8BH
Received 20 Oct 2015Junction Of Central Avenue North Road And Pembroke Chatham Kent
Received 5 Oct 20154 Egret Close St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3EG
Received 16 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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