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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5,480 approved · 2,853 refused · 1,152 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
74 High Street Chatham ME4 4DS
Received 29 Sept 201534 Deanwood Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NH
Received 25 Sept 2015The Former O'Connell Bar 13 Ordnance Terrace Chatham ME4 6PS
Received 29 Sept 2015Notre Songe Cooling Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SA
Received 29 Sept 201594-100 High Street And 2 Manor Road Chatham ME4 4DS
Received 28 Sept 2015The Barn Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HF
Received 25 Sept 201541 The Glebe Cuxton Rochester ME2 1LW
Received 25 Sept 2015Land At College Yard Rochester Kent ME1 1SX
Received 25 Sept 2015164 Burnham Walk Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8RT
Received 25 Sept 201531 Hunters Way Darland Gillingham ME7 3BS
Received 28 Sept 201578 Livingstone Road Gillingham ME7 2EJ
Received 28 Sept 2015Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1AF
Received 25 Sept 2015Crown And Phoenix Terminal Whitewall Way Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4EP
Received 29 Sept 201517 The Hazels Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SE
Received 29 Sept 2015132 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6BS
Received 25 Sept 201511 St Marys Cottages Fenn Street St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RB
Received 28 Sept 2015Sectors 10 11/15 And 13 Island Way West St Mary's Island Chatham Maritime Kent ME43SA
Received 29 Sept 20155 Field Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9TD
Received 28 Sept 2015Timber Barn West Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7TQ
Received 29 Sept 2015Livingstone Arms 239 Gillingham Road Gillingham ME7 4RB
Received 28 Sept 201581B Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SJ
Received 28 Sept 20151 Lynton Drive Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PZ
Received 22 Sept 201511 Arethusa Road Rochester ME1 2TZ
Received 24 Sept 201541 Hoath Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 0SW
Received 22 Sept 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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