Understanding planning · 13 min read
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5,101 approved · 3,258 refused · 1,224 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
108-110 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TR
Received 11 Mar 201551 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4NT
Received 11 Mar 2015Sse Medway Power Station Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AG
Received 11 Mar 2015The North Foreland 325 High Street Rochester ME1 1DA
Received 10 Mar 201551 Georgian Way Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QY
Received 11 Mar 201549 Broadview Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DD
Received 10 Mar 2015Garage Site Rear Of 7 9 & 13 Charing Road (R/O 46 To 50 Lynsted Rd And 41 To 45 Goudhurst Rd) Gillingham Kent ME8 6LN
Received 11 Mar 2015Land At Otterham Quay Lane Rainham Kent
Received 10 Mar 2015102 Taverners Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AQ
Received 10 Mar 2015391 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3PQ
Received 9 Mar 201510 Dewberry Close St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3HN
Received 9 Mar 201586 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BD
Received 9 Mar 2015104 Longley Road Rochester ME1 2HA
Received 9 Mar 201549 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UE
Received 9 Mar 20155 Gladstone Road Chatham ME4 6DY
Received 9 Mar 201511 Shepherds Way Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9RG
Received 6 Mar 201525 Audley Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AY
Received 9 Mar 2015107 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BE
Received 6 Mar 201594 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PN
Received 9 Mar 2015217 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8AY
Received 6 Mar 20157 Brompton Hill Brompton Chatham ME4 4XG
Received 6 Mar 2015Land Rear Of 157 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3NQ
Received 6 Mar 2015Former Swimming Pool Pembroke Chatham Maritime Gillingham
Received 3 Mar 201514 Harcourt Gardens Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TG
Received 17 Feb 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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