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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
4,795 approved · 3,317 refused · 1,239 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2008 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
110 Columbine Close Strood Rochester ME2 2YD
Received 23 Oct 20142 Fry Close Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0EE
Received 28 Oct 201473 Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham ME5 9NP
Received 28 Oct 201422 Sedley Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QZ
Received 27 Oct 201414 Chipstead Road Gillingham Kent ME8 9UA
Received 27 Oct 201435 Railway Street Chatham ME4 4RH
Received 24 Oct 2014Land To Front Of 62 Rochester Road Halling
Received 27 Oct 2014Rainham Mark Social Club 56 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YX
Received 24 Oct 201410 & 10A North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SH
Received 24 Oct 2014Mast And Mould Loft East Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 24 Oct 201420 Swain Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0SN
Received 22 Oct 2014The Crispin And Crispianus 8 London Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HT
Received 20 Oct 20143 Cazeneuve Street Rochester ME1 1XU
Received 24 Oct 201451 Moyle Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9RH
Received 23 Oct 201415 Scotby Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8EP
Received 23 Oct 2014Land At Carpeaux Close Chatham ME4 4NE
Received 24 Oct 2014100 Solomons Road Chatham ME4 4AJ
Received 23 Oct 20143 Mill Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1HL
Received 21 Oct 2014Former Bishops Court Kitchen Garden Love Lane Rochester Kent ME1 1JD
Received 23 Oct 2014Olympia Leisure 262 High Street Chatham ME4 4AN
Received 22 Oct 2014136 Clandon Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UT
Received 22 Oct 2014148 High Street Chatham ME4 4DB
Received 22 Oct 2014Hoath Way HWRC Ambley Road Off Hoath Way
Received 22 Oct 201496 Jarrett Avenue Wainscott Rochester ME2 4NG
Received 21 Oct 2014Records 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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