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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2,730 approved · 4,639 refused · 1,518 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
181 Napier Road Gillingham ME7 4HN
Received 18 Aug 2011Land At Chatham Docks Pier Road Chatham Kent
Received 17 Aug 201142 Highgrove Road Princes Park Chatham ME5 7PW
Received 18 Aug 201153 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NB
Received 15 Aug 201136 Jackson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SU
Received 16 Aug 201181 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 8UG
Received 10 Aug 2011Laurel Mortimers Avenue Cliffe Rochester ME3 8JT
Received 16 Aug 2011339 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 17 Aug 2011Unit B2 Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JG
Received 17 Aug 20111 Goad Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8DT
Received 16 Aug 201119 Glenwood Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RP
Received 15 Aug 2011Jersey Cottage Cross Street Gillingham ME7 1LB
Received 15 Aug 2011Former Bishopscourt Kitchen Garden Love Lane Rochester Kent ME1 1JD
Received 16 Aug 2011161 High Street Rochester ME1 1EJ
Received 15 Aug 2011Sandacres Upnor Road Upnor Rochester ME2 4UY
Received 9 Aug 201182 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SP
Received 15 Aug 20114 Chesham Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9LY
Received 15 Aug 201146 Speedwell Avenue Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0RX
Received 15 Aug 201135 Cardigan Close High Halstow Rochester ME3 8NX
Received 12 Aug 201146 Low Meadow Halling Rochester ME2 1LX
Received 12 Aug 2011Invicta House Sir Thomas Longley Road Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DU
Received 11 Aug 2011Pemberth Lodge Spekes Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RT
Received 12 Aug 201122 Bedgebury Close Rochester ME1 2UT
Received 11 Aug 201124 Horsted Way Horsted Chatham Rochester ME1 2XY
Received 11 Aug 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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