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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4,589 approved · 3,624 refused · 1,294 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
73 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AG
Received 26 Feb 201444 Begonia Avenue Twydall Gillingham ME8 6YB
Received 25 Feb 2014Garage Site Adjacent 6 Hazelmere Drive Gillingham Kent ME7 2TD
Received 19 Feb 201421 Kellaway Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BX
Received 25 Feb 201411 Iden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PJ
Received 25 Feb 2014Liberty Park Phase 2 & 3 Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Northern Side Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 20 Feb 2014588 City Way Rochester ME1 2TW
Received 20 Feb 2014371 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HX
Received 26 Feb 201418 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AA
Received 20 Feb 2014The Chapel Beresford Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4ET
Received 26 Feb 201462 Tanker Hill Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EU
Received 26 Feb 2014Leighton House Lower Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UU
Received 20 Feb 201433A Cooling Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SA
Received 24 Feb 2014229 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JB
Received 24 Feb 2014538 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0NW
Received 20 Feb 2014202-206 High Street Chatham ME4 4AS
Received 19 Feb 2014Highway House 195 New Road Chatham ME4 4QA
Received 21 Feb 2014Nora Court 64-66 High Street Chatham ME4 4DS
Received 19 Feb 2014St Peter Prince Of The Apostles Catholic Church Adjacent To 106 Beechings Way Gillingham Kent ME8 6LX
Received 21 Feb 201414 Broadview Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DB
Received 21 Feb 2014153-157 High Street Rochester ME1 1EL
Received 24 Feb 2014Scott Hall 2A Ingram Road Gillingham ME7 1YL
Received 21 Feb 2014227 City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 19 Feb 201474 Salisbury Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BL
Received 20 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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