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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4,589 approved · 3,651 refused · 1,298 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Galleon Way Upnor Rochester ME2 4GX
Received 15 Jan 2014Rainham Mark Social Club 56 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YX
Received 13 Jan 201436 Gerrard Avenue Rochester ME1 2RN
Received 10 Jan 201456 Cottall Avenue Chatham ME4 6HH
Received 14 Jan 2014Court Lodge Farm The Street Stoke Rochester ME3 9RT
Received 13 Jan 2014135 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5TT
Received 15 Jan 2014Adult Education Centre Green Street Gillingham ME7 5TJ
Received 13 Jan 2014Mid Kent College Site Horsted Centre Maidstone Road Chatham Kent ME5 9UQ
Received 8 Jan 201452 Binnacle Road Rochester ME1 2XP
Received 9 Jan 2014Eon-CHP/Grain Power Station Power Station Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AR
Received 10 Jan 2014Heathcliff Cottage Well Penn Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SD
Received 13 Jan 20146 King Edward Road Rochester ME1 1UA
Received 14 Jan 20142 Barnaby Terrace Rochester ME1 2LL
Received 14 Jan 20144 Broadview Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DB
Received 13 Jan 201420 Langdon Road Rochester ME1 1UN
Received 13 Jan 2014Cliffe Pools Redham Meade Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 13 Jan 201437 Barnaby Terrace Rochester ME1 2LL
Received 13 Jan 2014Cliffe Pools Redham Meade Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 13 Jan 2014Tresco 29 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JH
Received 13 Jan 2014Cliffe Yard Anthonys Way Medway City Estate Rochester Kent ME2 4DY
Received 10 Jan 201490 Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JT
Received 7 Jan 201411 Russells Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 8DB
Received 9 Jan 2014Allhallows Touring Caravan Park Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester Kent ME3 9PD
Received 8 Jan 20141 Lee Green Cottages Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8EU
Received 10 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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