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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4,795 approved · 3,326 refused · 1,241 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
166 Saunders Street Gillingham ME7 1HP
Received 25 Sept 2014Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham
Received 24 Sept 201414 Marley Way Rochester ME1 2LJ
Received 25 Sept 201459 Bettescombe Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AY
Received 24 Sept 2014Safety Bay House Warwick Crescent Borstal Rochester ME1 3LE
Received 24 Sept 201436 Campleshon Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LE
Received 24 Sept 2014Kent Community Housing Trust Lennox Wood Petham Green Twydall Gillingham ME8 6SZ
Received 24 Sept 2014Former St Matthews C Of E Infant School (Fields To South-East Of School Off Elm Tree Drive) Borstal Street Borstal Rochester ME1 3HJ
Received 24 Sept 2014119 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BE
Received 24 Sept 20141 Milner Road Gillingham ME7 1RD
Received 22 Sept 20141 Milner Road Gillingham ME7 1RD
Received 22 Sept 201465 Galleon Way Upnor Rochester ME2 4GX
Received 22 Sept 20141 Knavesacre Court Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QA
Received 23 Sept 2014Steelfields Ltd Owens Way Gads Hill Gillingham ME7 2RT
Received 23 Sept 2014Building L1 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham ME7 1RL
Received 22 Sept 201465 Park Avenue Gillingham ME7 4AG
Received 22 Sept 20144 Twyford Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7QH
Received 19 Sept 2014103 Gillingham Road Gillingham ME7 4RS
Received 16 Sept 2014151 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AQ
Received 23 Sept 2014Land Adj To 163 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EY
Received 23 Sept 2014Mobile Compactors Services Ltd Land To The South West Of Basin 1 (Berth 3-4) Gillingham Gate Road Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Chatham ME4 4SW
Received 22 Sept 2014Bethany Higham Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8BG
Received 23 Sept 20148 Harvey Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BA
Received 23 Sept 2014Shozna 153 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RR
Received 22 Sept 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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