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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3,189 approved · 4,483 refused · 1,452 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenvale Infant School Symons Avenue Chatham ME4 5UP
Received 8 May 2012Unit 6 Meridian Park Neptune Close Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4LE
Received 4 May 2012107 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RN
Received 2 May 2012Land At Whitewall Road/Commissioners Road Strood Rochester ME2 4ED
Received 8 May 201223 Weston Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HA
Received 4 May 2012Five Ways Court Chatham ME4 4DF
Received 4 May 2012213 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JB
Received 3 May 20127 Hoopers Road Rochester ME1 1YG
Received 4 May 2012Pemberth Lodge Spekes Road Gillingham
Received 3 May 201273 Arthur Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BU
Received 3 May 2012232 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0RG
Received 3 May 20121 Otway Terrace Chatham ME4 5JU
Received 4 May 201299 Bill Street Road Strood Rochester ME2 4RA
Received 1 May 20121 Jersey Road Strood Kent
Received 1 May 2012Manor House Cooling Castle Main Street Cooling Rochester Kent ME3 8DT
Received 1 May 2012Hyde Affordable Sub-Phase. Rochester Riverside Rochester Kent
Received 17 Apr 201226 Swallow Rise Princes Park Chatham ME5 7PR
Received 2 May 2012121 Watling Street Gillingham ME7 2YU
Received 1 May 201295 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AT
Received 1 May 2012Units 1 - 4 Conquest Industrial Estate Strood Rochester ME2 2AL
Received 1 May 201284 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2DH
Received 2 May 201275 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AN
Received 1 May 201270 Romany Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6TX
Received 30 Apr 201260 Chilham Road Gillingham ME8 6BU
Received 1 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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