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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4,589 approved · 3,764 refused · 1,320 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Grain Power Station Power Station Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AR
Received 24 Apr 2013Chatham Town Football Club Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6LR
Received 26 Apr 2013Spring Cottage Vicarage Lane Stoke Rochester ME3 9SB
Received 25 Apr 2013Clarence House 1A Hilda Road (Corner Of Hilda Road And Leopold Road) Chatham ME4 5PU
Received 24 Apr 2013Mango Joes Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 26 Apr 2013Railway Street Petrol Station Railway Street Gillingham Kent
Received 26 Apr 201315-19 New Road Chatham ME4 4QJ
Received 24 Apr 2013224 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NP
Received 25 Apr 2013Krystals Nightclub 3 New Road Chatham ME4 4QJ
Received 25 Apr 201351 Wyles Street Gillingham ME7 1NB
Received 23 Apr 201392 Binland Grove Horsted Chatham ME5 9UT
Received 15 Apr 201351 Wyles Street Gillingham ME7 1NB
Received 23 Apr 20131B Commercial Road Strood ME2 2AD
Received 22 Apr 201365 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AN
Received 23 Apr 2013Grain Power Station Power Station Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AR
Received 24 Apr 201318 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5TX
Received 22 Apr 201313 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AA
Received 24 Apr 201372 Rushdean Road Strood Rochester ME2 2PX
Received 23 Apr 2013British Red Cross Gundulph Road Chatham ME4 4ED
Received 23 Apr 2013Land Adjacent To 5 Eden Road & 2 Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester Kent ME38ST
Received 18 Apr 2013262 High Street Chatham ME4 4AN
Received 24 Apr 2013The Mast House & Mould Loft Wheelwrights Building And Covered Slip No. 5 Chatham Historic Dockyard Chatham Kent
Received 23 Apr 201327 Stuart Road Gillingham ME7 4AB
Received 23 Apr 2013Land Between 32 And 34 Roosevelt Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ER
Received 23 Apr 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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