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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
4,589 approved · 3,694 refused · 1,305 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Nov 2007 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
142 -144 Napier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4HG
Received 1 Oct 201313 Derby Road Darland Chatham ME5 7JE
Received 1 Oct 2013Corporation Street Car Park Corporation Street Rochester
Received 4 Oct 20137 Moor Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QQ
Received 3 Oct 201314 Sussex Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NJ
Received 2 Oct 201382 Elaine Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YP
Received 1 Oct 201357 Lancelot Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YY
Received 1 Oct 201319 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RF
Received 1 Oct 2013The Anchorians Club Darland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AN
Received 4 Oct 201314 Rushdean Road Strood Rochester ME2 2PA
Received 30 Sept 201325 Bradfields Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0LE
Received 26 Sept 2013The White House Riverside Globe Lane Chatham ME4 4SL
Received 2 Oct 201316-20 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5TX
Received 1 Oct 201355 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LH
Received 26 Sept 201336 Bendon Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 0EN
Received 1 Oct 201335 Duchess Of Kent Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8DG
Received 2 Oct 2013First And Second Floor 158 High Street Rochester ME1 1ET
Received 25 Sept 201391 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LF
Received 1 Oct 201373 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AT
Received 1 Oct 201322 Cunningham Crescent Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ES
Received 2 Oct 2013Nos. 3 4 10 12 13 14 15 20 21 23 24 25 26 33 40 42 49 50 52 54 55 57 69 75 83 94 96 99 101 108 109 110 112 113 And 126 Sycamore Road Strood Rochester ME2 2PJ
Received 27 Sept 2013Rose Inn 1-3 Catherine Street Rochester ME1 2HJ
Received 2 Oct 2013Land Adjacent To 37 Salisbury Avenue Rainham Gillingham
Received 27 Sept 2013Land Off Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent ME8 0RN
Received 27 Sept 2013Records 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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