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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4,589 approved · 3,778 refused · 1,324 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Hope Street Chatham ME4 5NL
Received 27 Feb 2013Land Adjacent To 11 Granary Close Rear Of 92-96 Parkfield Road And Adjacent To Caversham Close Rainham Kent ME8 7SG
Received 26 Feb 2013107 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PW
Received 26 Feb 201322 Portsmouth Close Strood Rochester ME2 2QY
Received 28 Feb 20139 Primrose Close Horsted Chatham ME4 6HZ
Received 28 Feb 2013Strood Academy Carnation Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SX
Received 27 Feb 201322 Mierscourt Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JD
Received 27 Feb 201328 White Leaves Rise Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EG
Received 26 Feb 201349 Mount Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3NH
Received 22 Feb 201315 Meadowdown Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SU
Received 22 Feb 201316 Gilbert Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QQ
Received 22 Feb 2013204 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TN
Received 25 Feb 201342 Elmfield Gillingham ME8 6BW
Received 26 Feb 201358 Second Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HS
Received 26 Feb 2013146 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5UB
Received 26 Feb 20132 Station Approach Halling Rochester ME2 1BN
Received 26 Feb 2013Rsme Upper Upnor Depot Upnor Rochester Kent
Received 26 Feb 2013100 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9BX
Received 25 Feb 201324 Oakhurst Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9AN
Received 25 Feb 201337 Barnaby Terrace Rochester ME1 2LL
Received 26 Feb 201312 Underdown Avenue Chatham ME4 5XR
Received 26 Feb 2013Block C Five Ways Court Chatham
Received 26 Mar 2013Wainscott Primary School Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester Kent ME2 4JY
Received 20 Feb 201334 Foulds Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QF
Received 22 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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