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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
2,730 approved · 4,635 refused · 1,516 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Strood Fire Station Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QT
Received 29 Sept 201126 Hunstanton Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8RL
Received 28 Sept 201162 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NB
Received 29 Sept 2011Outside 54 Maidstone Road Rochester Kent ME1 1RJ
Received 26 Sept 2011Junction Of Maxwell Road And Sallyport Brompton Gillingham Kent ME7 5GB
Received 26 Sept 2011Land Side Of 140 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1ER
Received 26 Sept 2011Land Between 1 And 3 Victoria Street Rochester Kent ME1 1XH
Received 26 Sept 2011Outside 1-56 Rochester Gate High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1JG
Received 26 Sept 2011Outside 7 King Edward Road Rochester Kent ME1 1UB
Received 26 Sept 201149 Thorndale Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9SW
Received 28 Sept 2011Land Off Layby On A228 Lodge Hill Chattenden Rochester Kent ME3 8NH
Received 27 Sept 2011107 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PW
Received 27 Sept 2011305 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NU
Received 27 Sept 2011196 High Street Rochester ME1 1EY
Received 27 Sept 2011Kent Boat And Ski Club Station Road Cuxton Rochester Kent ME2 1AB
Received 28 Sept 2011Mount Evans House Skinner Street Gillingham ME7 1LA
Received 27 Sept 2011Newlands Farm Cottage Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7TH
Received 23 Sept 2011Peppercorn Elm Avenue Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LZ
Received 26 Sept 2011Land Between 243-245 Magpie Hall Road Chatham
Received 23 Sept 2011124A High Street Gillingham ME7 1AS
Received 26 Sept 2011Farmhouse Mortimers Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 7RL
Received 23 Sept 2011Farmhouse Mortimers Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 7RL
Received 23 Sept 20114 Castle View Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PP
Received 21 Sept 201110 Cherry Amber Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LA
Received 26 Sept 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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