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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4,589 approved · 3,778 refused · 1,324 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bush Farm House 212 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HF
Received 5 Mar 201328 Merryfields Strood Rochester ME2 3ND
Received 1 Mar 2013Land Adjacent To The Railway Off Corys Road Rochester Kent
Received 4 Mar 2013142-146 High Street Chatham ME4 4DQ
Received 4 Mar 2013The Bridge Tavern 18 Church Street Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AL
Received 1 Mar 20137 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SP
Received 28 Feb 20138 Glanville Road Strood Rochester ME2 3EH
Received 1 Mar 20132 Judkins Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8LR
Received 1 Mar 2013Mid Kent College Site Horsted Centre Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9UQ
Received 28 Feb 2013Mid Kent College Site Horsted Centre Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9UQ
Received 28 Feb 201325 Commercial Road Strood Rochester ME2 2AD
Received 27 Feb 2013316 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5JP
Received 27 Feb 201340 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AP
Received 28 Feb 2013538 Bloors Farm Lower Rainham Road Rainham Kent ME8 7TP
Received 22 Feb 201334 Brambletree Crescent Borstal Rochester ME1 3LG
Received 27 Feb 201337 Kingfisher Drive Princes Park Chatham ME5 7NX
Received 28 Feb 20132 Higham Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SH
Received 28 Feb 201332 Coronation Road Luton Chatham ME5 7DE
Received 26 Feb 2013Hilltop Primary School Hilltop Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4QN
Received 26 Feb 201325 Romney Road Princes Park Chatham ME5 7LU
Received 27 Feb 201336 Pump Lane Gillingham ME8 7AB
Received 27 Feb 20133 And 5 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TU
Received 26 Feb 2013Former Butt Haw Meadow Vicarage Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 27 Feb 2013Grain Fire Station 10-12 Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0BQ
Received 27 Feb 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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