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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4,589 approved · 3,758 refused · 1,318 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
137 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LF
Received 13 May 2013Mango Joes Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 14 May 2013319 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 9 May 2013Court Lodge Farm The Street Stoke Rochester ME3 9RT
Received 7 May 201319 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QU
Received 10 May 2013Land Adjacent To Medtha House Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0DR
Received 30 Apr 201328 Polhill Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 9NX
Received 10 May 2013Hyde Affordable Sub-Phase Rochester Riverside Rochester Kent
Received 9 May 201343 Linwood Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3TP
Received 8 May 2013Keeley Mews 4 Second Avenue Gillingham ME7 2NB
Received 13 May 2013Land Between 28 & 30 & Rear Of Garages Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME7 2YD
Received 8 May 201324 North Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UH
Received 10 May 2013Footpath Eastern Side Of 69 High Street Rainham Gillingham Kent
Received 9 May 2013137 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AQ
Received 10 May 201321 Bolner Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9PJ
Received 9 May 2013Land At The White House 11 Sundridge Hill Cuxton Rochester ME2 1LH
Received 9 May 201317 Lychfield Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3LY
Received 10 May 201317 Lychfield Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3LY
Received 10 May 2013Wharf Farm House Wharf Farm Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UE
Received 7 May 2013165 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 8 May 2013Lloyds TSB Bank Plc Victory House Meeting House Lane Chatham ME4 4YU
Received 9 May 2013High Street Rainham (Junction Of London Road/Maidstone Road) Rainham Gillingham Kent
Received 9 May 201312 Underdown Avenue Chatham ME4 5XR
Received 9 May 20136 Little York Meadows Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UT
Received 9 May 2013Records 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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