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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4,589 approved · 3,624 refused · 1,294 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Nov 2007 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
69 Hartington Street Chatham ME4 5PJ
Received 26 Feb 201458 Kellaway Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BX
Received 27 Feb 20144 Pheasant Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AR
Received 28 Feb 2014Marbella 29 Grain Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NB
Received 3 Mar 201459-61 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BJ
Received 4 Mar 201411 Hinton Crescent Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RL
Received 3 Mar 2014Brompton Farm Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QZ
Received 28 Feb 2014Part Of Phase 3 And 4 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RL
Received 26 Feb 20143 Dean Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QH
Received 25 Feb 2014Gillingham Pier Pier Approach Road Gillingham Kent
Received 26 Feb 201420 Stanhope Road Strood Rochester ME2 3EJ
Received 27 Feb 201426 Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PF
Received 26 Feb 201493 Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8AY
Received 27 Feb 201431-33 Skinner Street Chatham ME4 5RQ
Received 26 Feb 2014Mayfield The Street Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JD
Received 27 Feb 2014Aldi Foodstore Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4JS
Received 19 Feb 20147 Shelden Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JX
Received 27 Feb 2014Land West Of Clipper Close Medway City Estate Rochester Kent
Received 25 Feb 2014254 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 21 Feb 2014Jet 21 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AB
Received 26 Feb 2014Pace Service Station 600 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8NJ
Received 25 Feb 2014Complete Moling Services (South East) Ltd Fenn Corner St Mary Hoo Rochester Kent ME3 8RF
Received 24 Feb 2014Texaco Service Station 188 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6EW
Received 27 Feb 201439 Chattenden Lane Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LE
Received 25 Feb 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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