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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4,589 approved · 3,344 refused · 1,247 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Between 34 And 35 Heathfield Close Chatham Kent ME5 7RP
Received 25 Jul 2014Cats Protection Bredhurst Adoption Shelter Matts Hill Road Hartlip Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7XA
Received 28 Jul 2014Garages To Rear Of 1-3 Lavender Close And Adjacent To 2F Mayweed Avenue Chatham Kent
Received 25 Jul 2014Garages To Rear Of 2 Silverweed Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0UD
Received 28 Jul 2014Garages At Hoopers Place Rochester Kent
Received 28 Jul 2014Garages To Rear Of 17 - 31 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QB
Received 28 Jul 201433 Pattens Lane Chatham ME4 6JR
Received 28 Jul 2014Land Adjacent To 2 Abbey Road Strood Rochester. Kent
Received 25 Jul 201433 Fourwents Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JY
Received 24 Jul 2014234 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TW
Received 25 Jul 2014Garage Site (Land Adjacent Dewdrop Public HOUSE0 Begonia Avenue Twydall Gillingham Kent
Received 25 Jul 2014Garage Site Rear Of 7 9 & 13 Charing Road (R/O 46 To 50 Lynstead Rd And 41 To 45 Goudhurst Rd) Twydall Gillingham ME8 6LN
Received 25 Jul 201423 The Street Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HT
Received 24 Jul 201410 Arthur Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BT
Received 24 Jul 20141 Elmstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BD
Received 24 Jul 2014Meeting Hall Canterbury Lane Rainham Kent ME8 8TN
Received 23 Jul 2014St Thomas More RC Primary School Bleakwood Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NF
Received 23 Jul 2014Former Bishopscourt Kitchen Garden Love Lane Rochester Kent ME1 1JD
Received 23 Jul 2014Land Adjacent 45 Patrixbourne Avenue Twydall Gillingham ME8 6UF
Received 21 Jul 201437 Hertsfield Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3PU
Received 21 Jul 20142 Reedham Crescent Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HT
Received 22 Jul 201498 Trafalgar Street Gillingham ME7 4RN
Received 21 Jul 20145 Jefferson Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DB
Received 21 Jul 2014Land East Of Yokosuka Way (Mill Hill) Gillingham Kent
Received 17 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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