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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4,589 approved · 3,595 refused · 1,289 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road
Received 25 Mar 201417 Clandon Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UG
Received 26 Mar 2014Alpha Lake And Chalk Lane North Sea Terminal Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SX
Received 15 Apr 201465 Fallowfield Wayfield Chatham ME5 0DX
Received 25 Mar 2014Alpha Lake And Chalk Lane North Sea Terminal Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SX
Received 24 Mar 201431 Gamelan Crescent Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9FN
Received 25 Mar 2014Brompton Barracks (Building BR0029) Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 26 Mar 201420 Warren Wood Road Rochester ME1 2UB
Received 25 Mar 2014Greenvale Infant School Symons Avenue Chatham ME4 5UP
Received 24 Mar 2014310A High Street Chatham ME4 4NR
Received 24 Mar 2014280 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LY
Received 24 Mar 20144 Christmas Street Gillingham ME7 1SZ
Received 24 Mar 201411 Abbey Road Gillingham ME8 6AP
Received 24 Mar 2014Royal School Of Military Engineering Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 21 Mar 2014Rear Of Sandacres Upnor Road Lower Upnor Kent ME2 4PE
Received 24 Mar 201428 Nursery Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BE
Received 21 Mar 2014202-204 And Land To Rear Of 206 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PR
Received 25 Mar 201413 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3SR
Received 24 Mar 2014Land West Of Clipper Close Medway City Estate Rochester Kent
Received 18 Mar 201439 Dial Road Gillingham ME7 2RL
Received 20 Mar 2014Garage Site Rear Of 149 And 151 Eastcourt Lane (Rear Of 36 To 40 Beechings Way And 21 To 25 Aylesford Crescent) Gillingham Kent ME8 6HW
Received 21 Mar 2014Former Ancaster Garage Site Station Road Strood Rochester ME2 4BD
Received 20 Mar 2014Woodside Barn South Bush Lane Rainham
Received 24 Mar 2014133 Trafalgar Street Gillingham ME7 4RP
Received 19 Mar 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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