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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4,589 approved · 3,758 refused · 1,318 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Court Lodge Farm The Street Stoke Rochester ME3 9RT
Received 7 May 2013109 City Way Rochester ME1 2BB
Received 7 May 2013Stanena 243 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JU
Received 30 Apr 201354 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2DQ
Received 2 May 20131 Terence Close Chatham ME4 4XZ
Received 3 May 201338A Central Park Gardens Chatham ME4 6UT
Received 9 May 2013Orchard Cottage Meresborough Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QJ
Received 1 May 201389 Ingram Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1SH
Received 7 May 2013Merryboys Stables Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Kent ME3 7TP
Received 7 May 2013178 (Former Jubilee PH) Darnley Road Strood Rochester ME2 2UW
Received 7 May 20136 Mill Lane Wayfield Chatham ME5 0BA
Received 7 May 20136 Ingram Road Gillingham ME7 1SD
Received 3 May 2013Bloors Farm Lower Bloors Lane Rainham Kent ME8 7TP
Received 6 May 2013Danecourt Primary School Hotel Road Gillingham ME8 6AA
Received 2 May 201342 Taverners Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AN
Received 3 May 2013The Mast House & Mould Loft Wheelwrights Building And Covered Slip No. 5 Chatham Historic Dockyard Chatham Kent
Received 23 Apr 201367 Glencoe Road Chatham ME4 5QE
Received 3 May 201355 Roosevelt Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HS
Received 1 May 20131 Clermont Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TQ
Received 2 May 2013586 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2UP
Received 7 May 201357 Windsor Road Gillingham ME7 4QL
Received 2 May 2013New Road School And Nursery Unit Bryant Street Chatham ME4 5QN
Received 3 May 2013Parkwood Community Centre Parkwood Green Shopping Centre Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PN
Received 3 May 20134 Brambletree Cottages Borstal Rochester ME1 3TN
Received 3 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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