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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4,589 approved · 3,632 refused · 1,297 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
85 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7NL
Received 20 Feb 201462 Portland Road Gillingham ME7 2NP
Received 24 Feb 201422 Gillingham Business Park Bailey Drive Gillingham Kent ME8 0SA
Received 21 Feb 2014Former Cement Works Site (Land To The West And East Of The A228 Formby Road) Halling Rochester ME2 1AW
Received 19 Feb 201432 Bushmeadow Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7NX
Received 20 Feb 2014Dulwich Health Centre 547-553 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5LF
Received 21 Feb 2014Land Adj To Post Office Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AA
Received 20 Feb 20142-4 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4PU
Received 21 Feb 201450 Moor Park Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QT
Received 20 Feb 2014Former Taylor-Neate Building Rear Of 329 High Street Rochester ME11DA
Received 18 Feb 2014Day Nursery School Khartoum Road Brompton Gillingham ME7 5AX
Received 18 Feb 2014183 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3TD
Received 17 Feb 20144 Maritime Court Dock Road Chatham Kent ME4 4FH
Received 21 Feb 20142 Station Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4AX
Received 13 Feb 2014Dickens House 5-7 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 19 Feb 2014123 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SL
Received 18 Feb 2014St Bartholomews Chapel High Street Chatham ME4 4EP
Received 17 Feb 2014235 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SP
Received 20 Feb 2014126 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JN
Received 19 Feb 2014111 Lancelot Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YX
Received 14 Feb 2014264 High Street Chatham ME4 4BP
Received 17 Feb 201422 Chalfont Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DN
Received 18 Feb 2014Land Adjacent To 5 & 7 Silver Hill Gardens And Land Rear Of 1-5 Orchard Villas Chatham ME4 5RG
Received 18 Feb 2014265 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SR
Received 14 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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