Understanding planning · 13 min read
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4,589 approved · 3,651 refused · 1,298 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Buddys View Perry Hill Cliffe ME3 7TX
Received 2 Jan 2014570B Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JX
Received 20 Dec 2013Land East Of Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JA
Received 20 Dec 2013Land Rear Of 148 Windmill Road Gillingham Kent ME7 5PE
Received 19 Dec 2013Brompton Farm Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3QZ
Received 18 Dec 20133 Aster Drive St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3EB
Received 19 Dec 2013236 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LZ
Received 17 Dec 2013Wainscott Primary School Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4JY
Received 17 Dec 2013Phase 3 Medway Gate Former Cuxton Pit No. 3 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 19 Dec 2013324-326 High Street Chatham ME4 4NR
Received 19 Dec 2013Chertseys Gate College Yard Rochester ME1 1SU
Received 18 Dec 2013Highway House 195/203 New Road Chatham ME4 4QA
Received 18 Dec 2013Restoration House 17 Crow Lane Rochester ME1 1RF
Received 19 Dec 201373 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AG
Received 18 Dec 2013Land Adjacent To 5 Eden Road And 2 Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8ST
Received 17 Dec 2013Restoration House 17 Crow Lane Rochester ME1 1RF
Received 19 Dec 2013The Medway Building University Of Kent Chatham Maritime Gillingham
Received 12 Dec 20135 Horwood Close Rochester ME1 3LR
Received 17 Dec 2013Corporation Street Car Park Corporation Street Rochester
Received 18 Dec 2013Rose Inn 1-3 Catherine Street Rochester ME1 2HJ
Received 19 Dec 201385 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AE
Received 18 Dec 2013Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PD
Received 18 Dec 2013Valliant House Trident Close Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4EZ
Received 18 Dec 201366 Capstone Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 7PG
Received 18 Dec 2013Records 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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