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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4,589 approved · 3,624 refused · 1,294 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fenn Farm Fenn Street St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8QS
Received 12 Mar 2014235 Rushdean Road Strood Rochester ME2 2QB
Received 10 Mar 201473 Cedar Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QZ
Received 13 Mar 2014Rye Street Farm Rye Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UD
Received 14 Mar 2014Mobile Compactors Services Ltd Land To The South West Of Basin 1 (Berth 3-4) Gillingham Gate Road Chatham Docks Pier Road Gillingham ME4 4SW
Received 12 Mar 201456 Malvern Road Gillingham ME7 4BB
Received 12 Mar 2014214 Lonsdale Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9JN
Received 11 Mar 2014Veolia Environmental Services (UK) Plc Whitewall Road Medway City Estate ME2 4DZ.
Received 13 Mar 201461 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 11 Mar 201422 Shirley Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9UR
Received 12 Mar 2014Plot 2 Merryboys Stables Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TJ
Received 12 Mar 2014Isle Of Grain Depot Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 11 Mar 2014Phase 1 And Part Of Phase 4 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RL
Received 7 Mar 201461 Prospect Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3BZ
Received 11 Mar 201435 Severn Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JN
Received 10 Mar 2014Nelson Building University Of Greenwich Central Avenue Chatham Maritime Gillingham Kent ME4 4TB
Received 10 Mar 201437-43 High Street Chatham ME4 4EN
Received 10 Mar 20142B Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DH
Received 6 Mar 201460 Hunters Way Darland Gillingham ME7 3BS
Received 7 Mar 2014Unit 5 Block T Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 10 Mar 201466 Boxley Road Chatham ME5 9LJ
Received 10 Mar 20145 Gordon Terrace Rochester ME1 1SB
Received 10 Mar 201464 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PE
Received 5 Mar 201464 Harvesters Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PA
Received 7 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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