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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4,589 approved · 3,651 refused · 1,298 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Nov 2007 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AQ
Received 22 Jan 2014Rochester Old Bridge Rochester Kent ME1 1QE
Received 21 Jan 2014Bishop Of Rochester Academy Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JB
Received 21 Jan 2014The Will Adams Centre Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BX
Received 22 Jan 2014Rochester Old Bridge Rochester Kent ME1 1QE
Received 22 Jan 2014Flat 3 Sir John Hawkins Hospital High Street Chatham ME4 4EW
Received 21 Jan 2014362 High Street Rochester ME1 1DJ
Received 22 Jan 2014362 High Street Rochester ME1 1DJ
Received 22 Jan 2014Rochester Old Bridge Rochester Kent ME1 1QE
Received 20 Jan 2014University Of Greenwich Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent ME4 4JB
Received 22 Jan 201431 Love Lane Rochester ME1 1JD
Received 21 Jan 201422 Cheldoc Rise St Marys Island Chatham ME4 3NR
Received 21 Jan 201433 Ten Acre Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 8TJ
Received 20 Jan 20147 Chada Avenue Gillingham ME7 4BN
Received 15 Jan 201415 The Chase Chatham ME4 6UP
Received 15 Jan 2014Land Rear Of 35 Powlett Road Strood Rochester ME2 4RD
Received 20 Jan 2014123 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3TT
Received 16 Jan 2014125 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AL
Received 21 Jan 201481 Church Green Rochester ME2 4HE
Received 21 Jan 2014D2 Vehicle Services (Kent) Ltd Alma Place Strood Rochester ME2 2AE
Received 21 Jan 20148 Academy Drive Darland Gillingham ME7 3EG
Received 16 Jan 2014Land East Of Bells Lane (Coleman Land Inc Rayes Lodge Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JA
Received 16 Jan 20144 Wharf Farm Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UE
Received 17 Jan 20143 Estelle Close Rochester ME1 2BP
Received 20 Jan 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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