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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4,795 approved · 3,319 refused · 1,240 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
84 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DG
Received 20 Oct 20141 Pembury Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DL
Received 21 Oct 2014287 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SS
Received 21 Oct 2014168 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2EP
Received 20 Oct 2014The Crispin And Crispianus 8 London Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HT
Received 20 Oct 20143 Capstone Ridge Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3AQ
Received 20 Oct 2014264 High Street Chatham ME4 4BP
Received 17 Oct 201450 Sharfleet Drive Strood Rochester ME2 2TY
Received 20 Oct 2014Raynes Lodge Land East Of Bells Lane (Coleman Land Inc) Bells Lane ME3 9JA
Received 20 Oct 201416 Manor Road Chatham ME4 6AG
Received 20 Oct 201415 Povey Avenue Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LZ
Received 17 Oct 2014D A C Technologies Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0RX
Received 17 Oct 201459-61 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BJ
Received 17 Oct 2014205 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3BU
Received 20 Oct 201427 High Street Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BJ
Received 20 Oct 20147 Fay Close Rochester ME1 1LZ
Received 17 Oct 2014Deangate Ridge Golf & Sports Complex Dux Court Road Hoo Rochester ME3 8RZ
Received 17 Oct 2014Robinsmead Buttway Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QP
Received 16 Oct 20141 & 2 Ross Cottages Ross Farm Road St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RA
Received 16 Oct 2014126 Watling Street Strood Rochester ME2 3QL
Received 17 Oct 2014308 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QH
Received 15 Oct 2014274 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PT
Received 16 Oct 201415 South Bush Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PS
Received 14 Oct 2014Former Service Station Railway Street Gillingham ME7 1XJ
Received 16 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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