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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2,730 approved · 4,775 refused · 1,579 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7-11 Central Parade Rochester ME1 2LQ
Received 24 May 20115 Francis Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LG
Received 20 May 2011513 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JX
Received 24 May 2011283 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3EF
Received 26 May 2011Hempstead Junior School Birch Grove Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3HJ
Received 20 May 2011Former Dock Road Service Station Dock Road Chatham ME4 4XJ
Received 25 May 20116 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PG
Received 23 May 2011Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 24 May 201136 Shakespeare Road Gillingham ME7 5QN
Received 23 May 2011Former School House Pasley House Rsme Building No.BR010 Pasley Road Brompton Barracks Gillingham ME7 5SJ
Received 24 May 2011Unit 2 Matts Hill Road Hartlip Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7UY
Received 23 May 201140 Iden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PH
Received 20 May 201121 Gordon Terrace Rochester ME1 1SB
Received 23 May 201122 Merton Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YX
Received 20 May 201168 Princes Street Rochester Close Kent ME1 2HG
Received 23 May 2011Land At: Former Oil Refinery East Of Grain Power Station Grain Road; Port Victoria Road; And Adjacent To And Including Foreshore East Of Grain Village Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 18 May 2011White Lion 325 High Street Chatham ME4 4BN
Received 20 May 20115 Iden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PJ
Received 20 May 2011106 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DQ
Received 17 May 201118 Hawbeck Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9TR
Received 20 May 2011Thames View Junior School Bloors Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DX
Received 19 May 2011Co Op Store Ship & Trades Building Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham ME4 3ER
Received 19 May 2011Riding Centre Capstone Country Park Capstone Road Chatham Kent ME7 3JG
Received 18 May 2011278 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LY
Received 17 May 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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