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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5,101 approved · 3,231 refused · 1,216 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Cloisterham Road Rochester ME1 2BW
Received 16 Mar 201578 Livingstone Road Gillingham ME7 2EJ
Received 17 Mar 2015Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 16 Mar 20151 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 16 Mar 201510 Star Hill And 1 Victoria Street Rochester ME1 1XB
Received 13 Mar 2015The Medway Queen Churchill Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0DE
Received 16 Mar 201562 Cedar Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QZ
Received 12 Mar 2015137 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JE
Received 16 Mar 2015Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PB
Received 13 Mar 20159 Ladywood Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EW
Received 16 Mar 201567 Dorrit Way Rochester ME1 2QE
Received 12 Mar 2015Land At Highview Farm Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham Kent ME5 8JP
Received 13 Mar 20151 St Johns Road Gillingham ME7 5NB
Received 12 Mar 201542 Harvesters Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PA
Received 11 Mar 2015Land Between 28 & 30 & Rear Of Garages Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME7 2YD
Received 12 Mar 2015Felicita 60 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JJ
Received 12 Mar 201585 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2ES
Received 11 Mar 20157 Chislet Walk Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9QH
Received 11 Mar 20152 Audley Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AX
Received 12 Mar 2015175 Beacon Road Chatham ME5 7BS
Received 11 Mar 201528 Clinton Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3TN
Received 11 Mar 201568 Middleton Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LR
Received 11 Mar 2015427 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HY
Received 10 Mar 201536 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AN
Received 3 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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