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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5,101 approved · 3,206 refused · 1,208 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Berkeley Close Rochester ME1 2UA
Received 14 Apr 201578A Ploughmans Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LJ
Received 10 Apr 20152 Ashburn Mews Gillingham ME7 2BS
Received 13 Apr 201560 Bournville Avenue Chatham ME4 6LR
Received 13 Apr 20152 St Barnabas Close Gillingham ME7 4BU
Received 9 Apr 201519 Cherry Tree Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 8JU
Received 13 Apr 201523 25 & 29 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JQ
Received 13 Apr 2015205 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3BU
Received 13 Apr 2015139 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BE
Received 14 Apr 2015Rayes Lodge Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JA
Received 13 Apr 20154 Darland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AA
Received 9 Apr 2015Land Rear Of 23 25 And 29 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JQ
Received 10 Apr 2015104 High Street Chatham ME4 4BY
Received 13 Apr 2015104 High Street Chatham ME4 4BY
Received 13 Apr 2015199 Church Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QE
Received 10 Apr 20151-41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 10 Apr 2015Garage Site Adjacent 6 Hazelmere Drive Gillingham ME7 2TD
Received 10 Apr 20151-41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 10 Apr 20153 Milton Avenue Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JS
Received 10 Apr 2015Land North East Of Kingsnorthindustrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 9 Apr 2015Jeffery Street Car Park Jeffery Street Gillingham
Received 9 Apr 2015Land To West Of Eastern By Pass A228/A289 (Northern Side Of Hoo Road) Wainscott ME3 8FB
Received 10 Apr 201518 Manor Road Chatham ME4 6AG
Received 10 Apr 201554 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AP
Received 10 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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