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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5,101 approved · 3,218 refused · 1,208 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
105 Hamelin Road Darland Gillingham ME7 3ER
Received 2 Apr 201550 Moor Park Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QT
Received 2 Apr 201592 Hilltop Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4QH
Received 2 Apr 20152 Montgomery Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HA
Received 2 Apr 2015Court Lodge Farm The Street Stoke Rochester ME3 9RT
Received 2 Apr 201523A Reed Street Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7UL
Received 1 Apr 201569 Abinger Drive Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UL
Received 1 Apr 201537 Merrals Wood Road Strood Rochester ME2 2PR
Received 1 Apr 2015Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre ME7 3PD
Received 31 Mar 2015Hal Ben Forge Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SL
Received 2 Apr 2015214 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PX
Received 1 Apr 2015Land Adjacent 54 Sidney Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3HG
Received 1 Apr 2015The Crispin And Crispianus 8 London Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HT
Received 31 Mar 201536 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2DA
Received 1 Apr 20156 Reed Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UN
Received 1 Apr 2015117 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TH
Received 1 Apr 201515 The Avenue St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3AU
Received 1 Apr 201544 Brookmead Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HL
Received 2 Apr 20155 Ashmead Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8NY
Received 2 Apr 2015The Cecil Arms 14 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DS
Received 1 Apr 2015Kings Court 413 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5BH
Received 1 Apr 2015Lyons House 9 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 27 Mar 20157 Park Crescent Chatham ME4 6NR
Received 1 Apr 20152 Merton Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YX
Received 1 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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