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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3,189 approved · 4,459 refused · 1,449 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Tunbury Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9EH
Received 29 Aug 2012Farmhouse Mortimers Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7RL
Received 24 Aug 201223 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DQ
Received 28 Aug 2012St Peter Prince Of The Apostles Catholic Church Adjacent To 106 Beechings Way Gillingham Kent ME8 6LX
Received 29 Aug 201236 Crescent Way Horsted Chatham ME5 9SY
Received 30 Aug 2012223 Napier Road Gillingham ME7 4HN
Received 30 Aug 201281 Church Green Rochester ME2 4HE
Received 31 Aug 201229 Woodview Rise Strood Rochester ME2 3RP
Received 29 Aug 2012245 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0RD
Received 13 Nov 2012Jezreels Tower Site Rainham Road Gillingham Kent ME7 5NQ
Received 24 Aug 20127A Cottall Avenue Chatham ME4 6HG
Received 28 Aug 2012147 Sunnymead Avenue Gillingham ME7 2EB
Received 28 Aug 201214 Pembroke Gardens Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TD
Received 28 Aug 2012The Coach House Buckhole Farm High Halstow Rochester
Received 22 Aug 20123 Sir Evelyn Road Rochester ME1 3NB
Received 28 Aug 201244 Wouldham Road Borstal Rochester ME1 3LB
Received 29 Aug 201215 Cornwall Road Rochester ME1 3DR
Received 28 Aug 2012Robin Hood Filling Station 430 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LL
Received 23 Aug 2012Corner Of Danes Hill And Dial Road Gillingham Kent
Received 28 Aug 20121 Bloors Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7EJ
Received 24 Aug 201227 Aintree Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PY
Received 23 Aug 2012Unit C Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JG
Received 28 Aug 2012Cats Protection Bredhurst Adoption Centre Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Sittingbourne ME9 7XA
Received 28 Aug 2012The Old Galvanising Workshop East Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TG
Received 23 Aug 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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