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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2,730 approved · 4,650 refused · 1,528 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
125-129 Tamar Drive Strood Rochester ME2 2EA
Received 13 Jul 2011102-110 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TR
Received 13 Jul 201123 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2RJ
Received 13 Jul 2011Rear Of 4-10 Coastguard Cottage (Fronting Chapel Road) Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0DS
Received 11 Jul 2011Land To Either Side Of 135 High Street Halling Rochester Kent ME2 1BT
Received 11 Jul 20113 Asquith Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JD
Received 12 Jul 2011Unit 5 Oaks Business Village Revenge Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8LF
Received 12 Jul 2011163 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 8 Jul 2011246 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JN
Received 11 Jul 2011Land Surrounding The Existing Sealing End Compound Horseshoe Point Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 8 Jul 20119 Birkhall Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7QD
Received 8 Jul 2011177 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PG
Received 11 Jul 2011Land Fronting 51 - 58 Hickory Dell Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SL
Received 8 Jul 2011139 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QD
Received 7 Jul 2011Bredhurst Adoption Centre Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME9 7XA
Received 7 Jul 20116 Crescent Way Horsted Chatham ME5 9SY
Received 7 Jul 201137 Carlton Crescent Chatham Kent ME5 7PJ
Received 6 Jul 201117 Coombe Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EL
Received 6 Jul 2011Unit 2 Michael Gill Building Tolgate Lane Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4TG
Received 4 Jul 2011Former Allotment Site (Adjacent To No 7) Clarendon Drive & (R/O 9-15 Lychfield Drive) Strood Rochester ME2 3LT
Received 4 Jul 2011Hoo Island Medway
Received 5 Jul 20113-5 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JB
Received 6 Jul 2011Darland Reservoir Star Mill Lane Darland Chatham
Received 6 Jul 201169 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 7 Jul 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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