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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5,101 approved · 3,220 refused · 1,209 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Haylands Station Road Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7RN
Received 23 Mar 201539 Begonia Avenue Twydall Gillingham ME8 6YB
Received 23 Mar 2015Cory's Road Rochester Kent ME1 1PZ
Received 24 Mar 2015The Will Adams Centre Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BX
Received 23 Mar 201515 Brewer Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HS
Received 24 Mar 2015430 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TL
Received 24 Mar 2015155 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YF
Received 23 Mar 201584 Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PN
Received 25 Mar 2015Polly Adams Cottage 2 Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9NS
Received 23 Mar 201519 Colchester Close Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HQ
Received 24 Mar 2015Site Adjacent To 2-14 Davey Court The Terrace Number 20 And To The Rear Of 2-20 Victoria Street 2-8 Star Hill And 186-196 High Street Rochester
Received 23 Mar 201567 69 And 71 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BJ
Received 24 Mar 2015University Of Greenwich At Medway Officers' Road Chatham ME4 4TB
Received 23 Mar 2015University Of Greenwich At Medway Officers' Road ME4 4TB
Received 24 Mar 201567 Orchard Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AE
Received 24 Mar 2015Former St Matthews Playing Field Borstal Street Borstal Rochester ME1 3HJ
Received 24 Mar 2015Royal Dockyard Church Main Gate Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 24 Mar 20152A Roberts Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AY
Received 24 Mar 2015Flanders Farm Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8QE
Received 24 Mar 2015Wharf Farm Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester
Received 24 Mar 2015Cliffe Site Land South Of Gravel Works Off Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 20 Mar 201517 Croft Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8TT
Received 23 Mar 2015Site Adjacent 2-14 Davey Court The Terrace No. 20 And To The Rear Of 2-2- Victoria Street 2-8 Star Hill And 186-196 High Street Rochester
Received 23 Mar 2015Games Court Cuxton Parish Recreation Ground Bush Road Cuxton Rochester
Received 23 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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