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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
3,189 approved · 4,472 refused · 1,450 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cooling Court Farm Cooling Court Cooling Rochester ME3 8DF
Received 19 Jun 2012Cooling Court Farm Cooling Court Cooling Rochester ME3 8DF
Received 18 Jun 2012Bradfields School Churchill Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0LB
Received 18 Jun 201284 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HU
Received 18 Jun 201246 Warden Road Rochester ME1 2JJ
Received 12 Jun 201297-101 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BW
Received 19 Jun 2012Land To The North West Side Of Eastcourt Lane Gillingham Kent
Received 19 Jun 2012Garage Block Between 238-248 Dale Street Chatham Kent
Received 15 Jun 2012Unit 1 Whitewall Centre Whitewall Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4DZ
Received 15 Jun 201248 Parr Avenue Gillingham ME7 1UH
Received 15 Jun 2012Land South Of Amherst Hill Brompton Gillingham Kent
Received 16 Jun 2012St Werburgh Court Pottery Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester
Received 18 Jun 201221 Oxford Road Gillingham ME7 4BP
Received 18 Jun 2012Hyde Affordable Sub-Phase Rochester Riverside Rochester Kent
Received 14 Jun 2012Chocker Shoes 4 Second Avenue Luton Chatham ME4 5AU
Received 15 Jun 2012Merry Boys Farm Cooling Common Cliffe Woods Rochester
Received 13 Jun 201211 Parkside Parade Parkside Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HX
Received 13 Jun 201288 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LL
Received 14 Jun 201253 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HW
Received 14 Jun 2012621 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 3QL
Received 15 Jun 2012Building 44 Chatham Docks Chatham Kent ME4 4SP
Received 13 Jun 201248 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5UN
Received 13 Jun 2012Fort Pitt Grammar School Fort Pitt Hill Chatham ME4 6TJ
Received 25 May 2012Fort Pitt Grammar School Fort Pitt Hill Chatham ME4 6TJ
Received 25 May 2012Records 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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