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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
4,662 approved · 3,342 refused · 1,247 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2008 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11D High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BW
Received 30 Jul 201412 Acre Close Rochester ME1 2RE
Received 31 Jul 2014Tesco Store Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 28 Jul 2014Tesco Store Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 28 Jul 2014Tesco Stores Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 28 Jul 201432 Cranmere Court Strood Rochester ME2 4SF
Received 29 Jul 201458 Binnacle Road Rochester ME1 2XP
Received 29 Jul 201472A Albany Road Luton Chatham ME4 5DN
Received 30 Jul 2014Victory Pier - Phase 3 And Part Of Phase 4 Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 25 Jul 201454 Boundary Road Chatham ME4 6TU
Received 30 Jul 2014152 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AQ
Received 25 Jul 2014Barrack Block Upnor Castle Upper Upnor Rochester ME2 4XG
Received 24 Jul 2014Garage Site (Land Adjacent Dewdrop Public House) Begonia Avenue Twydall Gillingham ME8 6YD
Received 29 Jul 201472 Cheriton Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0ET
Received 29 Jul 2014Leighton House Lower Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UU
Received 28 Jul 201436 Poplar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2NR
Received 30 Jul 2014Land Rear Of 43 And 44 Chalk Pit Hill Chatham ME4 5SU
Received 25 Jul 2014Units 1 2 3 & 5 Ashdown House Walderslade Centre Walderslade Road Chatham ME5 9LR
Received 25 Jul 2014Unit 6 Ashdown House Walderslade Centre Walderslade Road Chatham ME5 9LR
Received 25 Jul 2014119 Weston Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HB
Received 29 Jul 201419 Brewer Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HS
Received 28 Jul 2014Garage Site Off Romany Road (Rear Of 13-23 Romany Road 2-24 Preston Way And 41-53 Sturry Way) Gillingham ME86T
Received 25 Jul 2014Rochester Airport Maidstone Road Rochester Kent
Received 28 Jul 2014Mobile Compactors Services Ltd Land To The South West Of Basin 1 Berth 3/4 Gate Road Chatham Dock Pier Road Kent ME4 4SW
Received 24 Jul 2014Records 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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