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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3,189 approved · 4,513 refused · 1,459 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Elmfield Gillingham ME8 6BW
Received 23 Dec 2011Mid Kent College Of Higher & Further Education City Way Rochester ME1 2AD
Received 6 Jan 2012Land Adj 11 Granary Close Rear Of 92-96 Parkfield Road And Adj Caversham Close Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7SG
Received 4 Jan 201233 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5NE
Received 5 Jan 201233 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5NE
Received 5 Jan 20124 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 6 Jan 2012146 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SJ
Received 4 Jan 2012572 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0JX
Received 30 Jan 2012Barn At Cooling Marshes Land North Of Marshgate Farm Cooling Kent
Received 23 Dec 2011Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NY
Received 23 Dec 2011Kingsnorth Quarry Land To The South Of Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 23 Dec 2011104 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6YE
Received 4 Jan 2012Orchard Kennels Meresborough Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QS
Received 23 Dec 201166 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PE
Received 4 Jan 201219 Lyndhurst Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HE
Received 5 Jan 2012Princes Park Medical Centre Dove Close Chatham ME5 7TD
Received 23 Dec 201160 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PH
Received 23 Dec 20117 9 11 & 13 New Road Chatham Medway ME4 4QJ
Received 22 Dec 2011The Boathouse Elmhaven Marina Rochester Road Halling Kent ME2 1AQ
Received 3 Jan 201219 Christmas Street Gillingham ME7 1TD
Received 3 Jan 20125 Stoneacre Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PS
Received 3 Jan 2012165A & 165B High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TH
Received 3 Jan 2012Bishop Of Rochester Academy Magpie Hall Road Chatham Kent ME4 5JB
Received 19 Dec 201112 Spencer Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7RE
Received 3 Jan 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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