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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4,589 approved · 3,713 refused · 1,311 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Clissold Thanet Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0JZ
Received 6 Aug 2013246 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NP
Received 1 Aug 201331 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AQ
Received 1 Aug 2013Engineers Workshop Tinkers Alley Chatham Historic Dockyard Chatham Kent ME4 4TZ
Received 5 Aug 201338 Ealing Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YJ
Received 5 Aug 201394 Cleave Road Gillingham ME7 4AT
Received 5 Aug 201382 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AR
Received 5 Aug 201382 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AR
Received 5 Aug 201394-100 High Street & 2 Manor Road Chatham ME4 4DS
Received 1 Aug 20135 Miskin Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EB
Received 1 Aug 2013Plot 3 Wardens Site Sir Thomas Longley Road Frindsbury Kent ME2 4QW
Received 2 Aug 2013134 Capstone Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 7PL
Received 5 Aug 2013100 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AB
Received 1 Aug 2013Ajay Autos 216-222 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5BS
Received 31 Jul 2013Greenacre School 157 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0LP
Received 1 Aug 2013Chatham Grammar School For Boys Holcombe 103 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JB
Received 2 Aug 201319 Little Victory Mount St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3TB
Received 31 Jul 2013Part Of Former Allotment Site (Land Adjacent 7) Clarendon Drive And (Rear Of 9-15) Lychfield Drive Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3LT
Received 30 Jul 2013280 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LY
Received 31 Jul 2013Elmhaven Marina Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AQ
Received 1 Aug 2013Land Adjacent To 490B City Way Rochester Kent ME1 2TN
Received 1 Aug 2013Sherwin Knight Junior School Cedar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JP
Received 31 Jul 201332 Tennyson Avenue Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JG
Received 31 Jul 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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