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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3,189 approved · 4,492 refused · 1,454 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Hampton Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7RB
Received 2 Apr 201222 Millcroft Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QN
Received 3 Apr 2012Elaine Primary School Elaine Avenue Strood Rochester
Received 2 Apr 2012Graceland Symonds Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SY
Received 3 Apr 20126 New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 4 Apr 2012259-261 High Street Rochester ME1 1HQ
Received 4 Apr 2012Tesco Car Park Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 2 Apr 20125 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DH
Received 2 Apr 2012109 Langdale Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AF
Received 2 Apr 201223 Reedham Crescent Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 8HT
Received 2 Apr 2012Twydall Primary School Romany Road Twydall Gillingham Kent
Received 29 Mar 2012112-116 High Street Strood Rochester Kent
Received 30 Mar 2012Robin Hood Filling Station 430 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LL
Received 2 Apr 2012Plot 1 Merryboys Stables Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TP
Received 30 Mar 2012Rainham School For Girls Derwent Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BX
Received 29 Mar 2012Rainham School For Girls Derwent Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BX
Received 29 Mar 2012Plot 1 Merryboys Stables Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TP
Received 30 Mar 20124 North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SH
Received 30 Mar 20124 North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SH
Received 2 Apr 20127 Peacock Rise Walderslade Chatham ME5 8RN
Received 2 Apr 20121 Jersey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PB
Received 30 Mar 201264 Twydall Green Twydall Gillingham ME8 6XJ
Received 29 Apr 2012Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Both Sides Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 5 Mar 201214 Ladywood Road Cuxton Kent
Received 27 Mar 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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