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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5,101 approved · 3,262 refused · 1,225 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7A Cottall Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 6HG
Received 27 Feb 2015242 Rochester Street Chatham ME4 6RX
Received 27 Feb 2015107 Richmond Road Gillingham ME7 1LX
Received 2 Mar 201511 Stanford Way Cuxton Rochester ME2 1LL
Received 26 Feb 2015Garage Site Land Adjacent 39 Tangmere Close Gillingham Kent ME7 2TN
Received 27 Feb 2015Unit 69-70 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 3ED
Received 27 Feb 201543 Sturry Way Twydall Gillingham ME8 6UR
Received 27 Feb 20156 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 27 Feb 201555 Ordnance Street Chatham ME4 6SJ
Received 26 Feb 2015Albermarle Cottage 21 High Street Upnor Rochester ME2 4XG
Received 23 Feb 2015611 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3QL
Received 25 Feb 20152 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HT
Received 26 Feb 2015186 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HE
Received 25 Feb 2015National Grid Isle Of Grain Storage Installation Isle Of Grain ME3 0AJ
Received 25 Feb 2015Grain LNG Project Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AJ
Received 25 Feb 2015102 The Everglades Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PZ
Received 25 Feb 2015Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NY
Received 26 Feb 2015186 Avery Way Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QJ
Received 26 Feb 201512 Cobblestones Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3NT
Received 24 Feb 2015St Lukes Methodist Church City Way Rochester ME1 2BQ
Received 25 Feb 2015107 Richmond Road Gillingham ME7 1LX
Received 25 Feb 20152 Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham ME9 7XA
Received 24 Feb 2015ME4 4LP
Received 24 Feb 2015315 High Street Rochester ME1 1BU
Received 24 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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