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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2,730 approved · 4,837 refused · 1,620 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Sharsted Farm Shawstead Road Lordswood Chatham Gillingham ME7 3JL
Received 18 Mar 2010622 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TX
Received 17 Mar 2010Sector 9 (Land Adjacent To Main Street And Island Way West) St. Mary's Island Chatham Kent
Received 1 Mar 2010Sector 9 (Land Adjacent To Main Street And Island Way West) St. Mary's Island Chatham Kent
Received 22 Feb 2010Sector 9 (Land Adjacent To Main Street And Island Way West) St. Mary's Island Chatham Kent
Received 9 Feb 2010Plot 1 Anthony's Way Medway City Estate Frindsbury Rochester Kent
Received 16 Mar 2010229 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4JQ
Received 17 Mar 201014-16 Victoria Street Rochester ME1 1XH
Received 17 Mar 201057 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HW
Received 17 Mar 2010133 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TH
Received 17 Mar 201066 Kingsway Darland Gillingham ME7 3BD
Received 17 Mar 2010Service Station 103 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4JD
Received 17 Mar 201012 Horsted Way Horsted Chatham Rochester ME1 2XY
Received 17 Mar 201049 Illustrious Close Princes Park Chatham ME5 7RW
Received 17 Mar 201048 Thorndale Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9SW
Received 15 Mar 2010RSPB Cliffe Pools Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 16 Mar 2010St Margarets Cemetery Lodge Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3DD
Received 23 Feb 201012 Gillingham Green Gillingham ME7 1SS
Received 15 Mar 2010Beech Lodge Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0DT
Received 15 Mar 201061 Mayford Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8QZ
Received 15 Mar 2010Land To The Rear Of 114A Maidstone Road Chatham Kent.
Received 12 Mar 2010Homeside Symonds Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SS
Received 15 Mar 201031 Harrison Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TF
Received 16 Mar 2010118 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3DT
Received 16 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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