Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
4,853 approved · 3,305 refused · 1,231 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2008 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
59 Jersey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PB
Received 28 Nov 2014Liberty Park Hoo Road Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 1 Dec 2014Liberty Park Hoo Road Wainscott Rochester Kent ME3 8FB
Received 1 Dec 2014TB Car Sales Cross Street Gillingham ME7 1DH
Received 2 Dec 2014Highway And Adjoining Land Adjacent To St James Ce Voluntary Aided Primary School High Street Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BS
Received 1 Dec 201422 Garden Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5AS
Received 1 Dec 201437-43 High Street Chatham ME4 4EN
Received 1 Dec 2014Wickes Building Supplies Ltd New Cut Chatham ME4 6AA
Received 3 Nov 2014The White Hart 1 Rochester Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1AD
Received 27 Nov 201436 Hughes Drive Wainscott Rochester Kent ME2 4LN
Received 27 Nov 2014139 Warren Wood Road Rochester Kent ME1 2XE
Received 28 Nov 201416 New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 28 Nov 20147 Bayswater Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TH
Received 28 Nov 2014Land Adjacent 2 Rushdean Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 2PA
Received 27 Nov 2014Land Between 32 & 34 Roosevelt Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ER
Received 28 Nov 2014Medway Queen PH Churchill Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0DE
Received 28 Nov 2014106 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 27 Nov 2014JCB Medway Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PZ
Received 28 Nov 201425 Cloisterham Road Rochester ME1 2BW
Received 26 Nov 20141 Admirals Walk Walderslade Chatham ME5 8NL
Received 26 Nov 201410 Beresford Avenue Rochester ME1 2QU
Received 26 Nov 2014Farmhouse Mortimers Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7RL
Received 26 Nov 2014Farmhouse Mortimers Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7RL
Received 26 Nov 2014582 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2UH
Received 26 Nov 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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