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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4,589 approved · 3,390 refused · 1,251 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Woodside Barn South Bush Lane Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 8PS
Received 29 May 201413 Grove Road Gillingham ME7 2TX
Received 28 May 201466 Silverspot Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JT
Received 29 May 2014107 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TA
Received 30 May 2014136 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3RE
Received 30 May 20149 Admiralty Terrace Upnor Rochester ME2 4XJ
Received 28 May 201435 Seaton Road Gillingham ME7 4BJ
Received 27 May 201446 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RF
Received 28 May 20149 Admiralty Terrace Upnor Rochester ME2 4XJ
Received 28 May 2014409-415 High Street Chatham ME4 4NU
Received 23 May 201418 Seagull Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SG
Received 28 May 2014Cuxton Community Junior School Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EZ
Received 29 May 2014Kingfisher Primary School Kingfisher Drive Princes Park Chatham ME5 7NX
Received 28 May 20148 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BB
Received 27 May 201453 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PL
Received 27 May 201482 Trevale Road Rochester ME1 3PA
Received 27 May 2014Kingsnorth Commercial Park Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9ND
Received 28 May 2014Finishing House Trident Close Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4EZ
Received 28 May 2014Land Off Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent ME8 0RN
Received 22 May 2014Acorn Shipyard Ltd Commissioners Road Rochester Kent ME2 4EE
Received 28 May 20141 King Edward Road Rochester ME1 1UA
Received 27 May 201462 Conqueror Drive Gillingham ME7 2WP
Received 22 May 2014Liberty Park Phase 2 & 3 Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Northern Side Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 27 May 2014Former Temple High School Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DL
Received 23 May 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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