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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
5,251 approved · 3,068 refused · 1,182 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jun 2009 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Rear Of 43-107 Beatty Avenue Gillingham Kent ME7 2BZ
Received 24 Jun 20158 The Crescent St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3LE
Received 25 Jun 20156 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 23 Jun 2015104 Concord Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9TT
Received 24 Jun 201543 Carlton Avenue Gillingham ME7 2JX
Received 23 Jun 2015Units 4 5 And 6 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PU
Received 24 Jun 2015Units 4 5 & 6 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PU
Received 24 Jun 2015Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME4 4SW
Received 24 Jun 2015199 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SW
Received 24 Jun 2015Macklands House Station Road Rainham Gillingham
Received 24 Jun 201582-84 King Street Rochester ME1 1YD
Received 24 Jun 2015Frindsbury Car Wash Frindsbury Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4JR
Received 23 Jun 2015Frindsbury Car Wash Frindsbury Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4JR
Received 23 Jun 20154 Goldcrest Drive St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3RN
Received 23 Jun 2015356 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QJ
Received 6 Apr 201527 Cleave Road Gillingham ME7 4AY
Received 23 Jun 201591 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 22 Jun 2015514 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0NW
Received 22 Jun 201535 Stuart Road Gillingham ME7 4AD
Received 23 Jun 2015Site Adj To 2-14 Davey Court The Terrace No.20 And Rear Of 2-20 Victoria Street 2-8 Star Hill And 186-196 High Street Rochester
Received 22 Jun 201537 Brendon Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8JG
Received 22 Jun 201532 Moor Park Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QS
Received 22 Jun 201565 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AH
Received 22 Jun 2015Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust Church Lane Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TE
Received 19 Jun 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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