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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4,589 approved · 3,386 refused · 1,250 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2008 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 4 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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 Adjacent 4 Berengrave Lane Rainham Kent ME8 7LS
Received 30 May 201460 Hunters Way Darland Gillingham ME7 3BS
Received 5 Jun 2014109 Lancelot Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YX
Received 4 Jun 2014Lodge Maxwell Road Brompton Gillingham Kent ME7 5SG
Received 4 Jun 20144 Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LB
Received 4 Jun 201422 Lambourn Way Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PU
Received 5 Jun 2014104 Cleave Road Gillingham ME7 4AT
Received 5 Jun 2014Tesco Express Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PW
Received 2 Jun 2014Garage Site Land Adjacent To 39 Tangmere Close Gillingham Kent ME72TN
Received 4 Jun 2014Garage Site Off Romany Road (Rear Of 13-23 Romany Road 2-24 Preston Way And 41-53 Sturry Way) Gillingham Kent ME8 6UP
Received 4 Jun 2014141 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AL
Received 5 Jun 201422 Maryland Court Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8QY
Received 4 Jun 2014Garage Site (Land Adjacent Dewdrop PH) Begonia Avenue Gillingham Kent ME8 6YD
Received 4 Jun 2014246 R/O 246 & R/O 238-244 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0PA
Received 4 Jun 201420 And 22 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JY
Received 5 Jun 2014159 Sturdee Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HH
Received 3 Jun 201497 Macklands Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PF
Received 4 Jun 201449 Fulmar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SB
Received 2 Jun 2014Gibraltar House Dental Clinic New Road Chatham ME4 4RY
Received 30 May 201431 Cottall Avenue Chatham ME4 6HG
Received 2 Jun 20141 Birch Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RA
Received 2 Jun 2014Bishop Of Rochester Academy Magpie Hall Road Chatham Kent ME4 5JB
Received 2 Jun 20144A King Edward Road Gillingham ME7 2RE
Received 2 Jun 20145 Esplanade Rochester Kent ME1 1QE
Received 3 Jun 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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