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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2,730 approved · 4,635 refused · 1,516 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Allhallows Holiday Park Allhallows Caravan Park Allhallows Rochester Medway ME3 9QD
Received 6 Sept 201112 Wyvill Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NE
Received 8 Sept 2011Former Crest Packaging Site Courteney Road Gillingham Kent ME8 Orx
Received 6 Sept 2011Allhallows Leisure Park Allhallows On Sea Rochester Kent ME3 9QD
Received 6 Sept 2011Greystones Bloors Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TR
Received 15 Aug 2011London Road (A2 Eastbound) Land Opposite Tescos Store And West Of Rainham Mark Social Club Rainham Kent ME8 6YX
Received 8 Sept 201168 Windermere Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DX
Received 5 Sept 2011143 High Street Rochester ME1 1EL
Received 6 Sept 201151 Malvern Road Gillingham ME7 4BB
Received 25 Aug 2011103 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5TS
Received 7 Sept 201125 Plumtree Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RW
Received 6 Sept 201141 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0LJ
Received 5 Sept 201120 Jeffery Street Gillingham ME7 1DE
Received 7 Sept 2011Hazelmere 171 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2NJ
Received 5 Sept 201142 Tobruk Way Wayfield Chatham ME5 0JN
Received 5 Sept 201117 Higham Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8BE
Received 1 Sept 201136 Gerrard Avenue Rochester ME1 2RN
Received 6 Sept 2011Chestnuts Matts Hill Lane Hartlip Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7UY
Received 6 Sept 201152 Wheatcroft Grove Rainham Gillingham ME8 9JF
Received 6 Sept 2011The Hungry Fox Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PE
Received 5 Sept 201141-45 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5TR
Received 6 Sept 20111A Beresford Road Gillingham ME7 4ES
Received 6 Sept 201117 Priory Road Gillingham ME8 6AS
Received 5 Sept 2011Land Rear Of 119-123 Darnley Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 6 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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