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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
3,189 approved · 4,436 refused · 1,449 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
91 Malvern Road Gillingham ME7 4BB
Received 1 Nov 201227 Winchester Avenue Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 9AR
Received 29 Oct 201256A Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BL
Received 29 Oct 201212 Nares Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9RF
Received 24 Oct 201252 Nightingale Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8HR
Received 31 Oct 2012119 Jersey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PD
Received 29 Oct 201221 Park Avenue Gillingham Kent ME7 4AS
Received 29 Oct 2012Food Machinery Fenn Corner St Mary Hoo Kent ME3 8RF
Received 29 Oct 201233 Iden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PP
Received 29 Oct 201238 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AP
Received 26 Oct 20121 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 30 Oct 2012174 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LU
Received 26 Oct 201216 Tappan Drive St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3SY
Received 29 Oct 2012Former St. John Ambulance Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4PG
Received 29 Oct 2012335 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3PQ
Received 26 Oct 2012Colonial House Quayside Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4YY
Received 26 Oct 2012Medway Eastbound Msa J4-5 M2 Rainham Gillingham
Received 26 Oct 2012Invicta Business Centre Bredgar Road Gillingham Kent ME8 6PG
Received 26 Oct 201222 Wentworth Drive Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UL
Received 26 Oct 2012Turners Car Sales Basement Of 103-105 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4DH
Received 25 Oct 201257 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QX
Received 26 Oct 2012Unit 1 (Former Daniels & Co) Campus Way Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0NZ
Received 29 Oct 2012Unit 1 (Former Daniels & Co) Campus Way Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0NZ
Received 29 Oct 20123 Barberry Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9TE
Received 25 Oct 2012Records 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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