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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4,589 approved · 3,741 refused · 1,314 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
117 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LF
Received 19 Jul 2013230 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TW
Received 17 Jul 2013Plot 2 Merryboys Stables Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 7TP
Received 8 Jul 20133 New Road Chatham ME4 4QJ
Received 10 Jul 201322 Queendown Avenue Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NL
Received 9 Jul 201321 Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BA
Received 9 Jul 2013Unit 88/89 Pentagon Shopping Centre Chatham Kent ME4 4HY
Received 5 Jul 2013351 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 9 Jul 2013Doust House Doust Way Rochester ME1 1HH
Received 9 Jul 201338 Longfield Avenue High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TA
Received 9 Jul 2013265 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SY
Received 8 Jul 2013187 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4JH
Received 9 Jul 20132 Hale Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HG
Received 9 Jul 201352 Wells Road Strood Rochester ME2 2QW
Received 8 Jul 2013Unit J4 The Dickens Centre Leviathan Way Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4LL
Received 8 Jul 201394 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PN
Received 8 Jul 2013Universities At Medway Campus Chatham Kent ME4 4AG
Received 5 Jul 2013Thinking Schools Academy Trust New Horizons Childrens Academy Park Crescent Chatham Medway ME4 6NR
Received 9 Jul 2013Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DT
Received 8 Jul 2013128 Haig Avenue Rochester ME1 2RX
Received 4 Jul 20132 Swingate Avenue Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QZ
Received 8 Jul 201332 Woodstock Road Strood Rochester ME2 2DJ
Received 8 Jul 2013Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DT
Received 8 Jul 2013152 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1ER
Received 4 Jul 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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