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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4,795 approved · 3,331 refused · 1,241 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 St Margarets Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NR
Received 15 Sept 2014199 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4QH
Received 18 Sept 201449 Peverel Green Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9UH
Received 17 Sept 201429 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 17 Sept 2014The Pumping Station Symonds Road Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7SS
Received 18 Sept 2014Garage Site Rear Of 7 9 & 13 Charing Road (R/O Of 46 To 50 Lynsted Rd And 41 To 45 Goudhurst Rd) Gillingham Kent ME8 6LN
Received 18 Sept 201462 Seagull Road Strood Rochester ME2 2RH
Received 12 Sept 201420 Prospect Row Brompton Gillingham ME7 5AL
Received 17 Sept 2014Spar Stores 17 Church Street Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AH
Received 17 Sept 201460 Allison Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3BX
Received 16 Sept 2014227 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PS
Received 16 Sept 2014The Cecil Arms 14 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DS
Received 15 Sept 2014Land Rear Of 11 11A 15 Elm Avenue Chatham Kent
Received 12 Sept 201426B Chapter Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PX
Received 16 Sept 201447 Gardiner Street Gillingham ME7 1DW
Received 17 Sept 2014Land At Sectors 10 11/15 And 13 Island Way West St Mary's Island Chatham Kent
Received 15 Sept 20143 Dean Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QH
Received 17 Sept 2014Garage Site To Rear Of 64 And 66 Robson Drive Hoo Rochester
Received 16 Sept 201420 Highview Drive Chatham Kent ME5 9UN
Received 16 Sept 2014Fuji Copian (UK) Ltd Bailey Court Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PZ
Received 17 Sept 2014Former Southern Water Site Capstone Road Chatham Kent ME5 7QA
Received 16 Sept 2014453 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0NN
Received 10 Sept 2014Garage Site To Rear Of 4 And 6 St Johns Road Hoo Rochester ME3 9JT
Received 16 Sept 20141 Ravenswood Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3BY
Received 15 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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