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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5,101 approved · 3,220 refused · 1,209 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 May 2009 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Chart Place Parkwood Gillingham ME8 0LW
Received 27 Mar 2015Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham Kent ME7 5NY
Received 24 Mar 2015122 King George Road Chatham Kent ME5 0PS
Received 30 Mar 2015Lyons House 9 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 27 Mar 201534 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TU
Received 27 Mar 2015Sail And Colour Loft Church Lane Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TE
Received 27 Mar 2015290 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JT
Received 26 Mar 2015Elim Pentecostal Church Gravel Walk Rochester ME1 1XR
Received 26 Mar 201584 High Street Rochester ME1 1JY
Received 23 Mar 201584 High Street Rochester ME1 1JY
Received 23 Mar 2015Frindsbury Car Wash Frindsbury Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4JR
Received 27 Mar 2015The Horseshoe 51 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BZ
Received 26 Mar 201545 Lakewood Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NS
Received 26 Mar 201521 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HN
Received 26 Mar 201587 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DR
Received 26 Mar 2015333 Beechings Way Twydall Gillingham ME8 7BN
Received 24 Mar 201528 Carvoran Way Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NT
Received 23 Mar 20153 Chegwell Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8HD
Received 23 Mar 2015Reginald Lodge Well Penn Road Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7SD
Received 24 Mar 20153 Tobruk Way Wayfield Chatham ME5 0JP
Received 24 Mar 201510 Macklands Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PE
Received 24 Mar 201511 The Beeches Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NS
Received 24 Mar 2015148A Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QT
Received 23 Mar 2015Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 24 Mar 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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