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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3,189 approved · 4,449 refused · 1,449 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DW
Received 10 Oct 201228 Trubridge Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EW
Received 9 Oct 2012Village Hall Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BY
Received 9 Oct 2012Marks And Spencer 60 Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PD
Received 11 Oct 201258 Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AH
Received 9 Oct 201234 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HF
Received 8 Oct 2012Sector 4F St Mary's Island Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent
Received 8 Oct 2012Temple Park (Formerly Alloys Wheels) Priory Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BE
Received 8 Oct 201258 Binland Grove Horsted Chatham ME5 9UT
Received 10 Oct 201222 Tennyson Avenue Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JF
Received 8 Oct 2012Sector 4F St Marys Island Island Way West
Received 5 Oct 2012Phase 4E St Marys Island Island Way West
Received 5 Oct 201214 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NA
Received 4 Oct 20124 Highview Drive Horsted Chatham ME5 9UJ
Received 8 Oct 2012Park Lodge 362 Canterbury Street Gillingham
Received 5 Oct 201236 Capel Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9TE
Received 5 Oct 20127 Nares Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9RF
Received 8 Oct 201220 Harriet Drive Rochester ME1 1DY
Received 1 Oct 201225 Hilton Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8LA
Received 4 Oct 2012Clonsilla Cookham Hill Borstal Rochester ME1 3HB
Received 2 Oct 2012Land Adjacent To 94B Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester
Received 3 Oct 2012Phases 1A 2 & 3 Land East Of Bells Lane Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 3 Oct 201256A Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BL
Received 2 Oct 201223 Haig Avenue Gillingham ME7 2JJ
Received 4 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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