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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2,730 approved · 4,632 refused · 1,516 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
101 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2DX
Received 19 Oct 2011Strood Academy Carnation Road Strood Rochester ME2 2SX
Received 17 Oct 2011Whitehall Farm Off Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 12 Oct 2011Beech Lodge Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent. ME3 Odt
Received 25 Aug 20116 Hillside Road & 423 High Street Chatham ME4 4PA
Received 17 Oct 2011Land Rear Of 119-123 Darnley Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 17 Oct 201131 Letchworth Avenue Chatham ME4 6NP
Received 17 Oct 20117 Arethusa Road Rochester ME1 2TZ
Received 13 Oct 201186 Palmerston Road Chatham ME4 5SL
Received 14 Oct 201179 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 13 Oct 2011Land Off Cranford Close And Rear Of 27 And 28 Birling Avenue Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7HD
Received 14 Oct 2011241 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5XE
Received 18 Oct 201136 Arthur Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BT
Received 18 Oct 2011112 - 116 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TR
Received 17 Oct 2011Mid Kent College Site Horsted Centre Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9UQ
Received 17 Oct 20114A Luton Road Chatham Kent ME4 5AA
Received 13 Oct 201128 Balmoral Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4PG
Received 13 Oct 2011Unit 1 Whitewall Road Medway City Estate Strood Rochester Kent. ME2 4EW
Received 14 Oct 201149-53 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HT
Received 14 Oct 201136 Burrstock Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 8TR
Received 13 Oct 201128 Balmoral Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4PG
Received 10 Oct 2011254 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0PA
Received 13 Oct 201117 St Albans Road Strood Rochester ME2 2RT
Received 12 Oct 2011Wharf Farm House Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7UE
Received 10 Oct 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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