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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4,589 approved · 3,713 refused · 1,311 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
122 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BJ
Received 9 Aug 201373 Lancelot Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 2YY
Received 6 Aug 20131 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 7 Aug 2013The Range Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 3ED
Received 8 Aug 2013125 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AL
Received 8 Aug 2013156 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6DF
Received 8 Aug 2013199 City Way Rochester Kent ME1 2TJ
Received 5 Aug 2013199 City Way Rochester Kent ME1 2TJ
Received 5 Aug 201370 Kenilworth Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EJ
Received 6 Aug 20131 Farm Hill Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3RN
Received 2 Aug 201333 Newnham Street Luton Chatham ME4 5LF
Received 5 Aug 201347 Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LA
Received 6 Aug 201381 Danson Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7EN
Received 6 Aug 201394 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EY
Received 6 Aug 201334 Howard Avenue Rochester ME1 2AW
Received 8 Aug 2013Garage Blocks Between 49 And 57 Trinity Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1JA
Received 7 Aug 2013Cormorant House Upnor Road Lower Upnor Rochester ME2 4UY
Received 7 Aug 2013123 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SL
Received 2 Aug 20137 Maple Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HZ
Received 1 Aug 20132 Birch Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RA
Received 1 Aug 201313 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QL
Received 5 Aug 2013323 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HS
Received 5 Aug 2013Land To Rear Of 37-43 High Street Chatham ME4 4EN
Received 1 Aug 201355-55A Ordnance Street Chatham ME4 6SJ
Received 1 Aug 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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