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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2,730 approved · 4,635 refused · 1,516 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Annex A Strood Civic Centre Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4AU
Received 15 Sept 2011Land Between Nightclub And Health And Fitness Centre Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Rochester Kent ME2 2SS
Received 15 Sept 201118 Montrose Avenue Darland Chatham ME5 7HU
Received 15 Sept 201115 High Bank Rochester ME1 2XJ
Received 15 Sept 2011The Oast Meresborough Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8SP
Received 16 Sept 2011Land Rear 48 Hoath Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 0SW
Received 14 Sept 201124 Oakhurst Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9AN
Received 12 Sept 2011220 Gillingham Road Gillingham ME7 4QT
Received 13 Sept 2011Orchard Bourne Cooling Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UB
Received 14 Sept 2011Part Of Former Allotment Site (Land Adjacent 7) Clarendon Drive And (Rear Of 9-15) Lychfield Drive Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3LT
Received 14 Sept 20111 Mount Pleasant Bradley Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HY
Received 14 Sept 201119 Highgrove Road Princes Park Chatham ME5 7QE
Received 14 Sept 2011Unit 3 101-109 Beacon Road Chatham Kent. ME5 7BP
Received 30 Aug 201113 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HX
Received 25 Aug 2011Land Rear Of 2-6 Gerald Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 5TF
Received 6 Sept 201127 Grafton Avenue Rochester Kent
Received 16 Aug 201130 London Road Rainham Gillingham Kent
Received 13 Sept 2011Buttercrock Wharf Vicarage Lane Hoo St Werburgh Kent ME3 9LQ
Received 13 Sept 2011Lampard Centre & Youth Centre Sally Port Gardens Brompton Gillingham ME7 5BS
Received 13 Sept 2011165 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 26 Aug 201114 Leybourne Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QG
Received 30 Aug 201176 Harptree Drive Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0TF
Received 30 Aug 2011Garage Site Chatham Grove Chatham Kent ME4 6LU
Received 9 Sept 201181 South Avenue Gillingham ME8 6EE
Received 9 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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