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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4,795 approved · 3,308 refused · 1,236 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Brissenden Close Upnor Rochester ME2 4XW
Received 14 Nov 20147 Jackson Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DN
Received 14 Nov 20144 Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AG
Received 14 Nov 201427 Century Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BG
Received 14 Nov 201438 Stangate Road Strood Rochester ME2 2TU
Received 14 Nov 2014The Morden Arms 78 John Street Rochester ME1 1YW
Received 17 Nov 20142 Ashcroft Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8GS
Received 14 Nov 201431 Allington Road Gillingham ME8 6PD
Received 10 Nov 201475 Windmill Street Strood Rochester ME2 3XJ
Received 13 Nov 2014The Manor House Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DT
Received 13 Nov 201436 City Way Rochester ME1 2AB
Received 13 Nov 2014University Of Greenwich Central Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 4TB
Received 13 Nov 2014315 High Street Rochester ME1 1BU
Received 14 Nov 2014Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 12 Nov 2014Capstone Farm Country Park Capstone Road Lordswood Chatham Gillingham ME7 3JG
Received 13 Nov 201419 Gordon Terrace Rochester ME1 1SB
Received 12 Nov 2014Court Lodge Farm The Street Upper Stoke Rochester
Received 12 Nov 2014Gillingham Baptist Church Green Street Gillingham ME7 5TJ
Received 12 Nov 2014175 Beacon Road Chatham ME5 7BS
Received 12 Nov 201432 Star Hill Rochester ME1 1XB
Received 12 Nov 2014City Wall Wine Bar 120 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1JT
Received 13 Nov 2014Land At Malmaynes Hall Farm Between Malmaynes Hall Road And Hoopers Lane Lower Stoke Rochester Kent
Received 13 Nov 2014Cats Protection Bredhurst Adoption Shelter Matts Hill Road Hartlip ME9 7XA
Received 12 Nov 20143 Capstone Ridge Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3AQ
Received 17 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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