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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
5,101 approved · 3,197 refused · 1,207 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 May 2009 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Pembury Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DL
Received 22 Apr 201573 Wheatcroft Grove Rainham Gillingham ME8 9JE
Received 22 Apr 201567 Park Avenue Gillingham ME7 4AG
Received 22 Apr 201520 Tunbury Avenue Chatham Kent ME5 9EH
Received 21 Apr 201535 Kellaway Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BX
Received 22 Apr 2015102 Parkfield Road Rainham Kent ME8 7TA
Received 22 Apr 2015Cooling Castle Barn Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DT
Received 22 Apr 2015149 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JA
Received 23 Apr 201522 Warlingham Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7QJ
Received 22 Apr 201524 Chatsworth Drive Strood Rochester ME2 4RH
Received 21 Apr 201519 Alamein Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HZ
Received 22 Apr 201544 Montfort Road Strood Rochester ME2 3EX
Received 16 Apr 20152 Cozenton Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7LY
Received 21 Apr 20151 Cormorant Close Strood Rochester ME2 2XX
Received 21 Apr 2015Texaco 188 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6EW
Received 22 Apr 201594 Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NX
Received 22 Apr 201528 Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AB
Received 22 Apr 201558 Nares Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9RG
Received 22 Apr 2015174-176 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5XG
Received 22 Apr 20153 Webb Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HW
Received 21 Apr 20151 The Street High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SF
Received 20 Apr 2015Land Adjacent To 19 Crest Road Rochester ME1 2NH
Received 1 May 201544 Cranford Close Rainham Kent ME8 7HD
Received 21 Apr 201512 Whitehouse Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AS
Received 20 Apr 2015Records 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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