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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4,950 approved · 3,273 refused · 1,226 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Darland Service Station 149-151 Watling Street Gillingham Kent ME7 2YY
Received 10 Feb 20151 - 41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 10 Feb 2015Sectors 10 11/15 And 13 Island Way West St Marys Island Chatham Maritime Kent
Received 10 Feb 20151 - 41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 9 Feb 201580 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UG
Received 10 Feb 201570 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3TF
Received 10 Feb 2015111 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DP
Received 10 Feb 2015Land At West Motney Way Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7TZ
Received 10 Feb 201522 Audley Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AX
Received 10 Feb 201521 Southwark Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SE
Received 10 Feb 2015Land Fronting Hills Terrace (Land Between St Michael's Church And St Michael's RC Primary School) Chatham Kent
Received 9 Feb 2015First And Second Floor Offices 75-81 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AH
Received 9 Feb 201538 Taverners Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AN
Received 9 Feb 2015Land Adjacent To 13-15 High Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5AA
Received 10 Feb 201541 Broadway Gillingham ME8 6BA
Received 10 Feb 20158 Harvey Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BA
Received 9 Feb 2015Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 9 Feb 2015196 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6DG
Received 9 Feb 2015Plot 5 Kingsnorth Commercial Park Hoo St Werburgh Kent ME3 9ND
Received 5 Feb 2015119 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HR
Received 5 Feb 2015121A Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4DY
Received 6 Feb 201510 Star Hill And 1 Victoria Street Rochester ME1 1XB
Received 6 Feb 2015Land North Of Peninsula Way Main Road Chattenden Kent
Received 3 Feb 20157 Beatty Cottages Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PE
Received 6 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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