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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
5,121 approved · 3,150 refused · 1,203 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Thames Avenue High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TE
Received 12 May 201530 Lingley Drive Wainscott Rochester ME2 4NE
Received 12 May 201569 Christie Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7NQ
Received 12 May 2015174-176 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5XG
Received 12 May 2015Land Adjacent To 17 Cherbourg Crescent Chatham Kent
Received 12 May 2015The Windmill Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Weburgh Rochester ME3 8QB
Received 13 May 20157 Augusta Close Gillingham ME7 1FG
Received 12 May 20154 Hawkenbury Rise Strood Rochester ME2 3SG
Received 12 May 201570 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JH
Received 11 May 20155-7 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HJ
Received 11 May 201576 William Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8HW
Received 12 May 2015National Grid Grain LNG Grain Road Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 12 May 2015143 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LT
Received 11 May 201525 Reedham Crescent Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HT
Received 12 May 2015High Halstow Primary School Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TF
Received 11 May 20151 - 41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 12 May 2015Dickens House 5-7 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 8 May 201523 Lilac Crescent Strood Rochester ME2 2LG
Received 5 May 201586 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3TF
Received 8 May 2015Medway Council Gun Wharf Dock Road Chatham ME4 4TR
Received 11 May 20151 Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4HP
Received 11 May 2015Medway Council Gun Wharf Dock Road Chatham ME4 4TR
Received 11 May 2015Sectors 10 11/15 And 13 Island Way West St Marys Island Chatham Maritime Kent
Received 15 May 201570 Constitution Road Chatham Kent
Received 8 May 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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