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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
2,730 approved · 4,783 refused · 1,587 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Between The Sunlight Centre And 109 Richmond Road Gillingham
Received 31 Jan 2011Rainham Mark Grammar School Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AJ
Received 31 Jan 201178 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 28 Jan 2011Theatre Royal And Bank Premises 102-106 High Street Chatham ME4 4BY
Received 28 Jan 2011302-304 (Co-Op Supermarket) Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5JP
Received 31 Jan 201130 Arethusa Road Rochester ME1 2TZ
Received 31 Jan 2011Bredhurst Adoption Centre Matts Hill Road Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7XA
Received 31 Jan 2011Former Jobcentre Brook House 9-11 The Brook Chatham ME4 4LG
Received 1 Feb 20111 Ranscombe Farm Cottages Sundridge Hill Cuxton Rochester ME2 1LA
Received 1 Feb 2011National Tyre And Autocare Station Road Strood Rochester ME2 4BA
Received 28 Jan 201113B Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AA
Received 27 Jan 2011101 Valley View Road Rochester ME1 3NX
Received 28 Jan 2011Unit 8 Matts Hill Farm Matts Hill Road Hartlip Sittingbourne ME9 7UY
Received 28 Jan 201116-18 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JY
Received 25 Jan 2011181 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0ND
Received 27 Jan 20112B Georgian Way Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QY
Received 26 Jan 2011Tesco Courteney Road Gillingham Kent
Received 26 Jan 2011Block F/G (The Boathouse) Ocean Drive Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RL
Received 26 Jan 201110 Tamarind Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3ST
Received 27 Jan 2011Estate Road And Ground Remodeling Phase Land North East Of Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent ME3 9ND
Received 24 Jan 2011118-120 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AU
Received 27 Jan 2011Land Adjoining 10 Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UE
Received 26 Jan 201112 Grasmere Grove Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PL
Received 27 Jan 20111 St Andrews Road Gillingham ME7 1QR
Received 27 Jan 2011Records 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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