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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
5,360 approved · 2,988 refused · 1,171 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
138 Pagitt Street Chatham ME4 6RB
Received 31 Jul 201587 Ingram Road Gillingham ME7 1SE
Received 28 Jul 2015Land Adjacent To 24 Glenwood Close Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3RP
Received 30 Jul 2015Land North Of Moor Street Rainham Kent ME8 8QF
Received 29 Jul 2015114 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YE
Received 30 Jul 201594A Woodside Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0PN
Received 29 Jul 2015117 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BT
Received 29 Jul 2015Rochester Old Bridge Rochester Kent ME1 1QE
Received 28 Jul 2015106-110 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5UF
Received 27 Jul 2015Bishop Of Rochester Academy Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JB
Received 29 Jul 2015173 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4NB
Received 28 Jul 201511 King Edward Road Rochester ME1 1UB
Received 28 Jul 201514 Thames Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BN
Received 23 Jul 2015Invicta House Sir Thomas Longley Road Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DU
Received 28 Jul 2015Land Adjacent To 15 Christmas Street Gillingham Kent ME7 1SZ
Received 27 Jul 2015310 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 27 Jul 201511-15 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AB
Received 27 Jul 201572 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AB
Received 27 Jul 201524 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RJ
Received 27 Jul 2015203 Maidstone Road Rochester Kent ME1 3ES
Received 27 Jul 2015Rosebanks 49 Binney Road Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PL
Received 27 Jul 2015610 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TX
Received 27 Jul 201535 Freshwater Road Princes Park Chatham ME5 7SZ
Received 27 Jul 201526 Goodall Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NG
Received 24 Jul 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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