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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
4,795 approved · 3,336 refused · 1,243 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Chatham Waterfront Pumping Station Globe Lane Chatham Kent ME4 4SL
Received 22 Aug 2014125 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SL
Received 27 Aug 2014Land Adj To 1A Haig Villa's Main Road Chattenden Hoo Rochester Kent ME3 8PP
Received 27 Aug 2014Grain Fire Station 10-12 Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BQ
Received 26 Aug 2014Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3PD
Received 26 Aug 201416 Tappan Drive St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3SY
Received 27 Aug 201429A Connaught Road Luton Chatham ME4 5DJ
Received 25 Aug 20143 Sherbourne Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3LX
Received 26 Aug 2014Good Food Wines Whitewall Road Medway City Estate Strood Rochester ME2 4EW
Received 22 Aug 201473A Danson Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7ER
Received 21 Aug 2014Baptist Church Waltham Road Gillingham ME8 6XE
Received 14 Aug 2014Greenacres Chattenden Lane Chattenden Rochester ME3 8NL
Received 21 Aug 2014Land Rear Of 23 25 And 29 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 8JQ
Received 18 Aug 2014387 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 20 Aug 2014Asda 387 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 20 Aug 2014387 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 20 Aug 2014Garage Site Rear Of 23-29 Seagull Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SQ
Received 21 Aug 201432 Academy Drive Darland Gillingham ME7 3EJ
Received 21 Aug 2014287 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SS
Received 21 Aug 20145 Castleview Road Strood Kent ME2 3PP
Received 20 Aug 2014Danecourt School Hotel Road Gillingham ME8 6AA
Received 21 Aug 2014Bae Systems Marconi Way Rochester Kent ME1 2XX
Received 21 Aug 2014109 Lancelot Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YX
Received 21 Aug 2014St Georges Centre Pembroke Chatham Kent ME4 4UH
Received 21 Aug 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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