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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
5,189 approved · 3,093 refused · 1,186 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
404 City Way Rochester ME1 2BQ
Received 1 Jun 201535 Stuart Road Gillingham ME7 4AD
Received 3 Jun 2015Test File
Received 4 Jun 201535 Stuart Road Gillingham ME7 4AD
Received 4 Jun 2015Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 5 Jun 2015Garage Site Adj 6 Hazelmere Drive Gillingham ME7 2TD
Received 5 Jun 2015Newbold 71 Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham ME5 9NP
Received 4 Jun 201585 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HS
Received 3 Jun 20151A Ridley Road Rochester ME1 1UL
Received 4 Jun 201515 The Avenue St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3AU
Received 2 Jun 201512 Buxton Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UP
Received 2 Jun 2015Former Swimming Pool Pembroke Chatham Maritime Gillingham
Received 4 Jun 2015107 Richmond Road Gillingham ME7 1LX
Received 4 Jun 201561 Thornham Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6RF
Received 4 Jun 20154 Sherbourne Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3LX
Received 4 Jun 2015Land Adj To Dove Cottage Main Road Cooling Rochester Kent ME3 0DG
Received 2 Jun 20151A Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AA
Received 2 Jun 201514 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME4 6NZ
Received 3 Jun 2015Scallywags Day Nursery London Road Rainham ME8 7RJ
Received 2 Jun 20156 Parkfield Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7SU
Received 2 Jun 20156 Parkfield Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7SU
Received 3 Jun 2015Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham
Received 28 May 2015Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road ME4 4SW
Received 3 Jun 201518 -20 Batchelor Street Chatham ME4 4BJ
Received 1 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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