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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2,730 approved · 4,791 refused · 1,592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Rear Of Buckhole Farm Cooling Road High Halstow Kent
Received 10 Jan 2011Land Rear Of 42-48 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AH
Received 10 Jan 201130 Parkwood Green Shopping Centre Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PN
Received 11 Jan 201131 Letchworth Avenue Chatham ME4 6NP
Received 10 Jan 2011413-415 High Street Chatham ME4 4NU
Received 7 Jan 201159 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RL
Received 11 Jan 2011Land North-East Of Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 6 Jan 2011413-415 High Street Chatham ME4 4NU
Received 7 Jan 201121 Christmas Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SN
Received 1 Feb 2011Land And Associated Access Track To The South Of The Existing A228 Grain Road Freight Railway Line And Level Crossing Approximately One Kilometre East Of Lower Stoke Rochester Kent
Received 3 Feb 201116 Goldcrest Drive St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3RN
Received 20 Jan 201115 High Bank Rochester Kent ME1 2XJ
Received 19 Jan 20117 Monmouth Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7BQ
Received 19 Jan 2011134 Sturdee Avenue Gillingham ME7 2HL
Received 10 Jan 2011Ridge Lea Meadow Crescent Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JJ
Received 7 Jan 2011110 Madden Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9TQ
Received 7 Jan 2011127A Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EZ
Received 7 Jan 201110 Hawkenbury Rise Strood Rochester ME2 3SG
Received 7 Jan 2011151 High Street Rochester ME1 1EL
Received 29 Dec 2010A2 Sovereign Boulevard Watling Street Gillingham Kent
Received 10 Jan 2011151 High Street Rochester ME1 1EL
Received 29 Dec 201054 Vale Drive Horsted Chatham ME5 9XB
Received 6 Jan 2011Borstal Water Supply Reservoir Maidstone Road Borstal Rochester Kent ME1 3LP
Received 30 Dec 2010Land Adjacent To 23 Cooling Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RY
Received 29 Dec 2010Records 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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