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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
4,950 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,227 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chatham Pump House No.5 Leviathan Way Chatham Kent
Received 26 Jan 2015142 - 144 Borstal Street Borstal Rochester ME1 3JS
Received 27 Jan 201519 Leybourne Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QF
Received 27 Jan 201532 Bill Street Road Strood Rochester ME2 4RB
Received 26 Jan 201511-31 Cross Street And Grieveson House Chatham Kent ME4 4LT
Received 27 Jan 201567 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 26 Jan 2015Cliffe Pools Salt Lane Cliffe ME3 7SZ
Received 26 Jan 201522 Portsmouth Close Strood Rochester ME2 2QY
Received 27 Jan 201519 Green Lane Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0DQ
Received 27 Jan 201516 Nursery Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BD
Received 22 Jan 201530 Boxley Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LF
Received 26 Jan 2015Chatham Pump House No.5 Leviathan Way Chatham Kent
Received 26 Jan 2015174-176 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5XG
Received 26 Jan 2015Eastgate House High Street Rochester ME1 1EW
Received 26 Jan 2015213 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JB
Received 26 Jan 201561 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1LS
Received 23 Jan 2015146 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3TU
Received 26 Jan 2015Land Between 23 & 25 Webster Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7SD
Received 26 Jan 2015Site At Lower Upnor Depot Lower Upnor Rochester Kent
Received 21 Jan 2015Land Rear Of 48 Cambridge Road Strood Kent ME2 3HW
Received 23 Jan 2015Rear Of 21 Ross Street Rochester Kent ME1 2DF
Received 23 Jan 2015Site Adj To 2-14 Davey Court The Terrace No.20 And Rear Of 2-20 Victoria Street 2-8 Star Hill And 186-196 High Street Rochester
Received 23 Jan 201515 Bendon Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 0EN
Received 22 Jan 2015Building L1 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham ME7 1RL
Received 22 Jan 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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