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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4,589 approved · 3,580 refused · 1,286 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Nov 2007 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mid Kent College Medway Campus Medway Road Gillingham ME7 1FN
Received 7 May 201414 Poachers Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JF
Received 7 May 201448 Priestfields Rochester ME1 3AE
Received 7 May 201413 Barnaby Terrace Rochester ME1 2LL
Received 7 May 201448 Pankhurst Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DG
Received 6 May 2014Land Between 28 & 30 & Rear Of Garages Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME7 2YD
Received 1 May 201440 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QY
Received 6 May 201420 Highview Drive Horsted Chatham ME5 9UN
Received 7 May 2014St Georges Centre Pembroke ME4 4UH
Received 2 May 20146 Beech Road Strood Rochester ME2 2LP
Received 1 May 2014Proposed Chatham Free Primary School - New Horizons Primary School (Former Bishop Of Rochester Academy West Campus/Chatham South School Site) Park Crescent Chatham Kent ME4 6NT
Received 1 May 2014Former Magnet Site Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2AQ
Received 1 May 201415 Beatty Road Rochester ME1 2TG
Received 30 Apr 2014Flat 2 Sir John Hawkins Hospital High Street Chatham ME4 4EW
Received 30 Apr 201417 Hathaway Court Rochester ME1 1QX
Received 29 Apr 201413 Cornwall Road Rochester ME1 3DR
Received 28 Apr 20146 Burma Way Wayfield Chatham ME5 0JJ
Received 1 May 201461 Tanker Hill Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EU
Received 29 Apr 201413 Mierscourt Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JD
Received 29 Apr 2014Land Between 32 And 34 Roosevelt Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ER
Received 1 May 2014Garage Site Rear Of 7 9 & 13 Charing Road (R/O 46 To 50 Lynsted Rd And 41 To 45 Goudhurst Rd) Gillingham Kent ME8 6LN
Received 29 Apr 2014Kimberley 289 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LY
Received 30 Apr 20142 Victoria Street Gillingham ME7 1EW
Received 29 Apr 2014453 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0NN
Received 28 Apr 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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