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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4,589 approved · 3,356 refused · 1,247 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
119 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8AN
Received 7 Jul 2014200 Gillingham Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4EY
Received 4 Jul 201416 Commissioners Court New Stairs Chatham ME4 4HQ
Received 8 Jul 2014Rochester Old Bridge Rochester Kent ME1 1QE
Received 4 Jul 201439C Wallace Road Rochester ME1 2TB
Received 9 Jul 2014Rear Of 75 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RJ
Received 8 Jul 201495 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QD
Received 7 Jul 2014Rear Of 66 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5UF
Received 8 Jul 2014Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 8 Jul 201457 Miskin Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9ED
Received 8 Jul 2014154 Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QT
Received 8 Jul 201434 Grandsire Gardens Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9LH
Received 7 Jul 2014Complete Moling Services (Se) Ltd Fenn Corner St Mary Hoo ME3 8RF
Received 3 Jul 2014Land Between 76 & 78 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1SU
Received 4 Jul 2014Land Between 76 & 78 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1SU
Received 4 Jul 201423 Saxon Close Strood Rochester ME2 3RR
Received 7 Jul 2014200 Gillingham Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4EY
Received 4 Jul 201476 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PJ
Received 8 Jul 2014Rainham Mark Social Club 56 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YX
Received 4 Jul 201464 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LJ
Received 7 Jul 2014201A City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 4 Jul 201413 Railway Tavern Ordnance Terrace Chatham ME4 6PS
Received 26 Jun 2014Land Rear Of 43-107 Beatty Avenue Gillingham Kent ME7 2BZ
Received 7 Jul 20145 Harlequin Fields Rochester ME1 3EQ
Received 3 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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