Understanding planning · 13 min read
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2,730 approved · 4,781 refused · 1,584 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
110 City Way Rochester ME1 2AF
Received 10 Mar 20119 Little York Meadows Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UT
Received 10 Mar 201110 Bettescombe Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AU
Received 10 Mar 2011Fairview Community Primary School Drewery Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NU
Received 4 Mar 20115 Herbert Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BZ
Received 11 Mar 20114 Tufton Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7SH
Received 10 Mar 2011112 - 116 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TR
Received 3 Mar 201124 Pattens Lane Rochester ME1 2QT
Received 9 Mar 201171 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BZ
Received 9 Mar 2011(Pagoda Building) Former Municipal Buildings Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5LA
Received 9 Mar 201117 Rochester Avenue Rochester ME1 2DW
Received 8 Mar 201196 Hamelin Road Darland Gillingham ME7 3ER
Received 7 Mar 201145 Chart Place Parkwood Gillingham ME8 0LW
Received 8 Mar 20112 Horseshoe Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QU
Received 8 Mar 2011Buttercrock Wharf Vicarage Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9LQ
Received 8 Mar 20115 Brett Walk Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9RP
Received 7 Mar 201192 Watling Street Strood Rochester ME2 3QJ
Received 7 Mar 20114 Parkwood Green Shopping Centre Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PN
Received 7 Mar 2011Strood Academy Carnation Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SX
Received 4 Mar 2011281 Beechings Way Twydall Gillingham ME8 7BP
Received 7 Mar 20116 Cross Way Rochester ME1 3DX
Received 7 Mar 2011Building N & L2 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RL
Received 4 Mar 201124 New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 4 Mar 20118 Temple Gardens Strood Rochester ME2 2NG
Received 25 Feb 2011Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage