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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4,589 approved · 3,580 refused · 1,286 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AH
Received 29 Apr 2014Rochester Airport Maidstone Road Rochester Kent
Received 29 Apr 2014Coombe Lodge Coombe Farm Lane St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RL
Received 28 Apr 2014Siloam Roundel Siloam Farm Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PJ
Received 29 Apr 2014Unit 42 Riverside Estate Sir Thomas Longley Road Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DP
Received 30 Apr 2014The Coach House Rectory Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RP
Received 30 Apr 201457 City Way Rochester ME1 2AX
Received 29 Apr 201458 And 60 Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AH
Received 29 Apr 2014Coach House 29A Albert Road Chatham Kent ME4 5PY
Received 25 Apr 20147 Ham River Hill Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8EX
Received 29 Apr 201435 Georgian Way Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QZ
Received 28 Apr 2014362 High Street Rochester ME1 1DJ
Received 28 Apr 201433 Curlew Crescent Strood Rochester ME2 2RF
Received 29 Apr 20141-41A Eldon Street Chatham ME4 4NB
Received 28 Apr 201443 Southwark Road Strood Rochester ME2 2RB
Received 29 Apr 2014Premier Inn Chatham Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 25 Apr 2014208 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JL
Received 24 Apr 2014The Anchorians Club Darland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AN
Received 28 Apr 2014254 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 28 Apr 2014Flat 3 Sir John Hawkins Hospital High Street Chatham ME4 4EW
Received 24 Apr 2014Woodlands Primary School Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2DU
Received 24 Apr 201443 Southwark Road Strood Rochester ME2 2RB
Received 24 Apr 2014Land Adjacent To 33-40 Wollaston Close Gillingham Kent ME8 9SH
Received 28 Apr 2014225 City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 24 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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