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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
5,251 approved · 3,068 refused · 1,182 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Esplanade Rochester ME1 1QW
Received 19 Jun 2015Former Bishopcourt Kitchen Gardens Love Lane Rochester Kent ME1 1JD
Received 22 Jun 201519 Green Lane Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0DQ
Received 23 Jun 201513 Guinness Drive Wainscott Rochester ME3 8GE
Received 22 Jun 201565 Binland Grove Horsted Chatham ME5 9UT
Received 22 Jun 20157 Hook Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9TP
Received 22 Jun 201529 Goudhurst Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6LG
Received 22 Jun 201583 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4JY
Received 18 Jun 20151-41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 22 Jun 201512 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TR
Received 19 Jun 2015Flanders Farm Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8QE
Received 18 Jun 2015124 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YE
Received 19 Jun 2015Land Rearof Sandacres Upnor Road Lower Upnor Kent ME2 4PE
Received 19 Jun 201581 Bligh Way Strood Rochester ME2 2XE
Received 19 Jun 2015Land Adjacent To 5 Montgomery Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HA
Received 22 Jun 201557 Carlton Avenue Gillingham ME7 2JX
Received 22 Jun 201558 Wyvill Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NE
Received 19 Jun 201533 Beresford Avenue Rochester ME1 2QX
Received 19 Jun 20154 Blackrock Gardens Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TH
Received 12 Jun 201511 Otterham Quay Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LL
Received 19 Jun 2015104 Lonsdale Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9HZ
Received 19 Jun 20156 Teal Drive St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3EA
Received 19 Jun 201521 Woodpecker Glade Parkwood Gillingham ME8 0JR
Received 19 Jun 2015325 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2ST
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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