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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3,189 approved · 4,449 refused · 1,449 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Main Gate Road Chatham Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 22 Oct 201299 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DY
Received 22 Oct 2012192 High Street Chatham ME4 4AS
Received 22 Oct 201274 Asquith Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JD
Received 22 Oct 201256 Kenilworth Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EH
Received 23 Oct 201260 Seagull Road Strood Rochester ME2 2RH
Received 19 Oct 201236 Low Meadow Halling Rochester Kent ME2 1LX
Received 18 Oct 2012The Horseshoe 51 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BZ
Received 17 Oct 201211 Westergate Road Strood Rochester ME2 3RZ
Received 22 Oct 201219 Sally Port Gardens Brompton Gillingham ME7 5BU
Received 18 Oct 201223 Cooling Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RY
Received 19 Oct 2012Friary Place Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4AR
Received 18 Oct 2012622-624 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TX
Received 17 Oct 2012Land Adjacent To 29 May Road Rochester Kent ME1 2HY
Received 16 Oct 2012Rear Of 91-93 Grange Road Gillingham Kent ME7 2RJ
Received 17 Oct 20126 The Chase Chatham ME4 6UP
Received 18 Oct 2012Prince Arthurs Road (Outside Mid Kent College) Gillingham
Received 18 Oct 201211 Leigh Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8ED
Received 19 Oct 2012Mitre Service Station Corporation Street Rochester ME1 1NH
Received 16 Oct 2012533 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QZ
Received 17 Oct 2012Grain Power Station Power Station Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AR
Received 17 Oct 2012Tesco Car Park Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 18 Oct 2012Tesco Car Park Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0GX
Received 18 Oct 2012Port Medway Marina Station Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1AB
Received 17 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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