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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4,589 approved · 3,370 refused · 1,249 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Allhallows Holiday Park Allhallows Caravan Park Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QD
Received 13 Jun 2014Land To Rear Of 187- 193 Princes Avenue Rear Of 32/41 Gatcombe Close And North Of Peacock Rise Walderslade Chatham ME5 8AR
Received 16 Jun 20148 Bettescombe Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AU
Received 16 Jun 2014Allhallows Leisure Park Allhallows On Sea Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QD
Received 13 Jun 2014107 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6TU
Received 11 Jun 201460 Mayford Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8QZ
Received 16 Jun 2014Tesco Express Store 48-52 Sturdee Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HN
Received 16 Jun 201460 Mayford Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8QZ
Received 16 Jun 201415 The Ridgeway Chatham ME4 6PD
Received 13 Jun 2014St Nicholas Ce Voluntary Controlled Infant School London Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HU
Received 13 Jun 2014Star Meadow Sports & Social Club Darland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AN
Received 10 Jun 2014103 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BA
Received 10 Jun 201464 Holly Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LH
Received 12 Jun 201444 Begonia Avenue Twydall Gillingham ME8 6YB
Received 11 Jun 201494 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PN
Received 13 Jun 20142 Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME9 7XA
Received 13 Jun 2014The Railway 2 Railway Street Gillingham Kent ME7 1XL
Received 10 Jun 201432 Coppertree Walk Lordswood Chatham ME5 8TS
Received 12 Jun 2014M T S Cleansing Services Royal Eagle Close Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4NF
Received 13 Jun 201460 Downsview Wayfield Chatham ME5 0AJ
Received 13 Jun 2014Hilltop Primary School Hilltop Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4QN
Received 13 Jun 2014National Grid Grain LNG Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 9 Jun 20149 Northwood Avenue High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SX
Received 12 Jun 2014Land Adjacent To 340 Wilson Avenue Rochester Kent ME1 2SW
Received 12 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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