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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2,730 approved · 4,768 refused · 1,578 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjoining 9 Ash Tree Lane & Rear Of 1-3 Watling Avenue Chatham Kent
Received 21 Jun 201144 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JJ
Received 22 Jun 2011203 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JD
Received 17 Jun 201133/35 Settington Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0AG
Received 20 Jun 2011Cooling Court Farm Cooling Court Cooling Rochester ME3 8DF
Received 21 Jun 201153 Shanklin Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7QL
Received 20 Jun 2011Former Mid Kent College City Way Centre City Way ME1 2AD
Received 22 Jun 201131 Keyes Avenue Chatham ME4 5TH
Received 21 Jun 201184 Holly Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LH
Received 20 Jun 20117 Landor Court Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SP
Received 20 Jun 201130 Knights Road Hoo Rochester Kent ME3 9DP
Received 17 Jun 20111A Bellwood Court St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RT
Received 21 Jun 2011181 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JG
Received 20 Jun 20113 St Andrews Road Gillingham ME7 1QR
Received 20 Jun 201125 Cunningham Crescent Wayfield Chatham ME5 0ES
Received 17 Jun 2011Land At Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7AJ
Received 17 Jun 20115 Fay Close Rochester ME1 1LZ
Received 20 Jun 2011The Royal Engineers Goudhurst Road Twydall Gillingham ME8 6NQ
Received 14 Jun 2011302-304 (Co-Op Supermarket) Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5JP
Received 13 Jun 201128 Murray Road Strood Rochester ME2 4HJ
Received 17 Jun 2011128 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham Kent ME5 8PH
Received 16 Jun 201125 Stonecross Lea Wayfield Chatham ME5 0BL
Received 16 Jun 201126-28 Hoath Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 0SW
Received 14 Jun 2011Bridgeside Warwick Crescent Rochester Kent ME1 3LE
Received 15 Jun 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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