Understanding planning · 13 min read
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4,589 approved · 3,588 refused · 1,288 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
The Thomas Aveling School Arethusa Road Rochester ME1 2UW
Received 15 Apr 20148 Willow Trees Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0FE
Received 15 Apr 2014205 High Street Chatham ME4 4BG
Received 14 Apr 2014174-176 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5XG
Received 14 Apr 201432 Penshurst Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DT
Received 11 Apr 201412 Chart Place Parkwood Gillingham ME8 0LN
Received 11 Apr 201444 Mount Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3NH
Received 11 Apr 2014Harbour View Sir Evelyn Road Rochester ME1 3NE
Received 11 Apr 201438 Malvern Road Gillingham ME7 4BA
Received 10 Apr 2014126 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RH
Received 11 Apr 2014The Stables Eastcourt Farm Eastcourt Lane Gillingham ME7 2UR
Received 11 Apr 2014Harbour View Sir Evelyn Road Rochester ME1 3NE
Received 7 Apr 20147 Hawkins Close Brompton Chatham ME4 4XN
Received 9 Apr 201460 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RF
Received 14 Apr 2014Robinsmead Buttway Lane Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7QP
Received 10 Apr 201461 Prospect Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3BZ
Received 14 Apr 20142 Goodwood Close High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SU
Received 14 Apr 2014Rear Of 51 Goddington Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DE
Received 9 Apr 2014Star Meadow Sports & Social Club Darland Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AN
Received 10 Apr 2014Royal School Of Military Engineering Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 11 Apr 2014Unit J4 The Dickens Centre Leviathan Way Chatham Kent ME4 4LL
Received 10 Apr 201426 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HN
Received 10 Apr 2014Frankie And Bennys Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 10 Apr 2014Frankie And Bennys Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 10 Apr 2014Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage