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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5,101 approved · 3,228 refused · 1,212 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 23 Mar 2015110A Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AB
Received 24 Mar 201531 Tudor Grove Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AF
Received 23 Mar 201513-15 Borough Road Gillingham ME7 4LS
Received 23 Mar 201531 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JE
Received 20 Mar 201511 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7LS
Received 23 Mar 2015346A High Street Chatham ME4 4NP
Received 23 Mar 2015366 Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TJ
Received 23 Mar 2015Walnut Tree Farm 155 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XT
Received 20 Mar 201590 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PJ
Received 20 Mar 201524 Sundridge Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8HE
Received 19 Mar 2015Land At Cooling Common Cliffe Kent ME3 7TJ
Received 19 Mar 2015Land Adjacent To 5 Upper Luton Road Chatham Kent ME5 7BH
Received 18 Mar 2015109 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PD
Received 19 Mar 201561 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AQ
Received 20 Mar 201515 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 20 Mar 2015Horsted Park Pilots View Chatham Kent ME4 6BF
Received 19 Mar 201567 & 67A Ordnance Street Chatham ME4 6SH
Received 20 Mar 2015104 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 20 Mar 201599 Kenilworth Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EJ
Received 19 Mar 2015119 City Way Rochester ME1 2BB
Received 19 Mar 201577 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 3BJ
Received 19 Mar 201524 Locarno Avenue Gillingham ME8 6ES
Received 18 Mar 2015Medway Granada Services Junction 4/5 M2 Motorway Gillingham Kent ME8 8PQ
Received 18 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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