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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4,589 approved · 3,364 refused · 1,248 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2008 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Hickory Dell Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SL
Received 27 Jun 201458 Mount Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3NH
Received 25 Jun 2014Flanders Farm Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8QE
Received 25 Jun 201415 The Ridgeway Chatham ME4 6PD
Received 26 Jun 2014Stoke Garage High Street Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9RD
Received 25 Jun 201436 Gerrard Avenue Rochester ME1 2RN
Received 25 Jun 201422 Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TQ
Received 26 Jun 201434 Grandsire Gardens Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9LH
Received 23 Jun 20148 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QL
Received 26 Jun 2014Medcare House/Land Off Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent
Received 20 Jun 20142 Third Avenue Luton Chatham ME5 0AD
Received 26 Jun 2014Land Adjacent 80 Haig Avenue Chatham ME4 5UF
Received 26 Jun 20144 Estelle Close Rochester ME1 2BP
Received 23 Jun 201458 Allison Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3BY
Received 25 Jun 2014121A Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4DY
Received 26 Jun 2014Bishopscourt St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TS
Received 25 Jun 2014Former Tug And Shovel 65 North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SW
Received 25 Jun 201425 Parkwood Green Shopping Centre Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PW
Received 25 Jun 2014149-151 Watling Street Gillingham ME7 2YY
Received 25 Jun 2014Land Adjacent To 1 Yarrow Road Chatham Kent ME5 0SJ
Received 24 Jun 201440 Lambsfrith Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RU
Received 24 Jun 2014Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RT
Received 24 Jun 2014Tresco 29 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JH
Received 24 Jun 201439 Rock Avenue Gillingham ME7 5PU
Received 24 Jun 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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