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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2,730 approved · 4,837 refused · 1,620 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
206 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 26 Mar 20102 Solomons Farm Cottages Sharnal Street High Halstow Rochester ME3 8QH
Received 26 Mar 2010206 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 26 Mar 20107 Streetfield Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7SR
Received 17 Mar 2010Somerfield Stores The Mall Britton Street Gillingham Kent
Received 25 Mar 2010Garage/Workshop Site Rear Of 148 Windmill Road Gillingham Kent
Received 25 Mar 20105 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AA
Received 25 Mar 2010Rear Of 181 Maidstone Road Chatham Kent
Received 24 Mar 2010Regional Personnel Office Knight Road Strood Kent ME2 2JE
Received 18 Mar 2010Willow Lodge Spekes Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RT
Received 25 Mar 201028 Shelldrake Close Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0DH
Received 25 Mar 201018 City Way Rochester Kent ME1 2AB
Received 23 Mar 2010Crest Packaging Site Courteney Road Gillingham Kent ME8
Received 22 Mar 2010Tesco Courteney Road Gillingham Kent
Received 22 Mar 20105 Phillips Court Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JD
Received 24 Mar 20101 Old Barn Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PJ
Received 23 Mar 2010Coombe Lodge Coombe Farm Lane St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RL
Received 23 Mar 201021 Colchester Close Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HQ
Received 24 Mar 201012 Parkside Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JP
Received 23 Mar 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 24 Mar 201030 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HN
Received 23 Mar 2010Phase 2A/2B Medway Gate (Formerly Cuxton Pit Number 3) Cuxton Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 23 Mar 2010154 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SX
Received 23 Mar 201048 Asquith Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JD
Received 23 Mar 2010Records 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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