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4,589 approved · 3,632 refused · 1,297 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Slough Fort Allhallows Leisure Park Allhallows On Sea Rochester Kent ME3 9QD
Received 12 Feb 201429 Henry Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8HE
Received 14 Feb 2014Land At Playfootball London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RJ
Received 18 Feb 20145 The Chase Gillingham ME8 6AG
Received 19 Feb 2014Isle Of Grain Depot Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 17 Feb 2014Pear Tree Cottage Noke Street Wainscott Rochester ME3 8BJ
Received 12 Feb 20142 Third Avenue Luton Chatham ME5 0AD
Received 17 Feb 201413 Hollingbourne Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6SS
Received 14 Feb 2014197 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3QG
Received 13 Feb 201448 Hollingbourne Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6SS
Received 18 Feb 201459-61 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 17 Feb 2014Land Rear Of 39 Chalk Pit Hill Chatham ME4 5SU
Received 17 Feb 201418 Butt Haw Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9BA
Received 17 Feb 201417 Medlar Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RQ
Received 14 Feb 201443 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HN
Received 17 Feb 2014West Court Farm Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7ST
Received 13 Feb 2014The Old Meeting Hall Queens Road Gillingham ME7 4LP
Received 17 Feb 2014Greenacre School 157 Walderslade Road Chatham ME5 0LP
Received 17 Feb 2014Aldi Foodstore 60-86 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4EJ
Received 17 Feb 20148 Stillwater Mews St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3SL
Received 13 Feb 201417 Meadow Crescent Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JJ
Received 12 Feb 2014188 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3EJ
Received 17 Feb 20145 Eden Road High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8ST
Received 11 Feb 20148 Pembroke Gardens Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TD
Received 12 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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