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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4,589 approved · 3,772 refused · 1,322 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
131 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BT
Received 11 Mar 201313 Broadwood Road Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LX
Received 7 Mar 20135 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JB
Received 8 Mar 201314 Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BH
Received 12 Mar 20132 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QA
Received 13 Mar 2013Land Rear Of 589 Maidstone Road (Off Roper Close) Rainham Gillingham ME8 0LQ
Received 11 Mar 2013Theatre Royal And Bank Premises 102-106 High Street Chatham Kent
Received 12 Mar 201353 York Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9ER
Received 12 Mar 2013Keppler 46 York Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9ER
Received 12 Mar 201333 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5NE
Received 12 Mar 201316 Durham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JW
Received 11 Mar 20135 Lullingstone Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TS
Received 5 Mar 201333 Browndens Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JH
Received 8 Mar 201351 Cambridge Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JF
Received 11 Mar 20132 New Barn Farm Cottages New Barn Cooling Rochester ME3 8DE
Received 11 Mar 201388 Canterbury Street Gillingham Kent ME7 5UF
Received 11 Mar 2013Courtsole Farm Pond Hill Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7QS
Received 7 Mar 2013Unit 5 Block T Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 7 Mar 20138 Bettescombe Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AU
Received 7 Mar 201342 The Goldings Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AX
Received 7 Mar 201395 Malvern Road Gillingham ME7 4BB
Received 11 Mar 201333 Wooldeys Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7NU
Received 8 Mar 20138 Wooldeys Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7NT
Received 11 Mar 2013Stone Hill Nurseries Haven Street Wainscott Rochester ME3 8BL
Received 11 Mar 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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