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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3,189 approved · 4,513 refused · 1,459 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
All Faiths Childrens Community School Gun Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4UF
Received 8 Dec 2011Clonsilla Cookham Hill Borstal Rochester ME1 3HB
Received 13 Dec 2011Berth 3/4 Basin 3 Chatham Docks Chatham Kent ME4 4SW
Received 13 Dec 2011Willow Court Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LE
Received 15 Dec 201115 Vancouver Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DD
Received 13 Dec 201166 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DT
Received 12 Dec 2011Darland Reservoir Star Mill Lane Chatham Kent ME5 7HB
Received 13 Dec 201113-15 Railway Street Chatham ME4 4HU
Received 12 Dec 2011260 High Street Chatham ME4 4AN
Received 9 Dec 2011Deangate Cottage Dux Court Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 8RZ
Received 8 Dec 20115 Gordon Terrace Rochester ME1 1SB
Received 13 Dec 2011Krystals Nightclub 3 New Road Chatham Kent ME4 4QJ
Received 12 Dec 2011164 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2NH
Received 12 Dec 2011Hyde Affordable Sub-Phase Rochester Riverside Rochester Kent
Received 1 Dec 201133 Fordwich Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3FA
Received 9 Dec 2011Land To Rear Of 146 Rede Court Road Strood Kent ME2 3TU
Received 28 Oct 201197 Boundary Road Chatham ME4 6UH
Received 7 Dec 201148 Bayswater Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8TE
Received 7 Dec 2011Berths 3 & 4 Chatham Docks Chatham Kent
Received 2 Dec 2011Hawthorn Road Clinic Hawthorn Road Rochester ME2 2HU
Received 8 Dec 2011Khyber Road (Outside Mid Kent College) Gillingham Kent ME7 1FN
Received 8 Dec 2011Footpath On Corner Of Mill Road At Junction With Khyber Road & Saunders Street Gillingham Kent
Received 8 Dec 2011Land Adjacent To 362 Canterbury Street ME7 5JU
Received 8 Dec 2011Railway Street (Outside Number 5) Gillingham Kent ME7 1XF
Received 8 Dec 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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