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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2,730 approved · 4,635 refused · 1,516 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
96 Hopewell Drive Wayfield Chatham ME5 7PY
Received 23 Sept 2011Black Lion Leisure Centre Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HL
Received 22 Sept 2011Upper Flat 9 Livingstone Road Gillingham ME7 2EH
Received 22 Sept 201120 St Leonards Avenue Chatham ME4 6HL
Received 22 Sept 20111 Waterworks Cottages Nashenden Farm Lane Borstal Rochester ME1 3TG
Received 22 Sept 2011318 Broadway Gillingham ME8 6DU
Received 21 Sept 2011Post Office High Street Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BJ
Received 22 Sept 2011Sherwood Cricket Club Cloudesley Close Rochester
Received 21 Sept 2011Co-Op Store The Mall High Street Gillingham ME7 1AL
Received 20 Sept 2011173 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TJ
Received 20 Sept 201113 Danson Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7ES
Received 20 Sept 20118 Livingstone Circus Gillingham ME7 4HA
Received 15 Sept 2011284 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2TB
Received 20 Sept 2011162 Eastcourt Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6HH
Received 20 Sept 201117 Priory Road Gillingham ME8 6AS
Received 21 Sept 2011Liberty Park ( Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A229) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 19 Sept 201157 Orchard Street Rainham Kent ME8 9AB
Received 19 Sept 201114-20B Fanconi Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8DE
Received 19 Sept 2011Clarence House 1A Hilda Road (Corner Of Hilda Road & Leopold Road) Chatham Kent ME4 5PU
Received 19 Sept 2011Land Rear Of 1 Rowland Close Gillingham Kent ME7 3DJ
Received 15 Sept 2011Unit 53 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 3ED
Received 20 Sept 2011Royal Naval Benevolent Trust Pembroke House 11 Oxford Road Gillingham ME7 4BS
Received 15 Sept 2011Oaklands Junior School Weeds Wood Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0QS
Received 22 Sept 2011147 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RR
Received 13 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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