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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3,189 approved · 4,508 refused · 1,456 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Cobblestones Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3NT
Received 10 Feb 2012Unit 1 92-94 Hopewell Drive Wayfield Chatham ME5 7PY
Received 10 Feb 2012Unit 12 Railway Street Industrial Estate Railway Street Gillingham ME7 1YQ
Received 10 Feb 201213 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HX
Received 9 Feb 201213 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HX
Received 9 Feb 201230 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4TB
Received 8 Feb 2012378 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7QZ
Received 9 Feb 2012Former Police Station Cazeneuve Street Rochester ME1 1XT
Received 9 Feb 20124 London Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3HT
Received 9 Feb 2012Former Cement Works Formby Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AW
Received 8 Feb 2012Coach House Adjacent To 51 Station Road South Eastern Road Strood Kent ME2 4BP
Received 8 Feb 201234 Stuart Road Gillingham ME7 4AD
Received 10 Feb 201233 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HN
Received 9 Feb 2012Adjacent To 1A Benenden Road Strood Rochester ME2 4NU
Received 10 Feb 2012173-175 High Street Rochester ME1 1EH
Received 9 Feb 2012173-175 High Street Rochester ME1 1EH
Received 9 Feb 201225 Gun Tower Mews Rochester ME1 3GU
Received 10 Feb 201226 Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PF
Received 10 Feb 20122 North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SH
Received 8 Feb 20126 Castle View Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PP
Received 8 Feb 2012Land To Rear Of 146 Rede Court Road Clinton Avenue ME2 3TU
Received 7 Feb 201216 Larkin Close Strood Rochester ME2 4SA
Received 8 Feb 201238 Station Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RX
Received 9 Feb 2012Bridgeside Warwick Crescent Rochester ME1 3LE
Received 9 Feb 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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