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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2,730 approved · 4,844 refused · 1,625 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Rear Of Merryboys Plot 1 Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TP
Received 15 Mar 2010307 Churchill Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0LA
Received 12 Mar 2010Abbey Court Community School Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3SP
Received 15 Mar 2010Land North-East Of Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 3 Mar 20102-2A Railway Street Chatham ME4 4JL
Received 15 Mar 201018 Century Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0BG
Received 11 Mar 2010235 City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 12 Mar 2010143 Haig Avenue Rochester ME1 2RX
Received 12 Mar 2010107 Victoria Street Gillingham ME7 1EL
Received 12 Mar 201011 Neville Road Chatham ME4 6QN
Received 12 Mar 20103 Corporation Road Gillingham ME7 1RH
Received 11 Mar 2010Land At Courtney Road (Former Astra Site) Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 Orx
Received 26 Feb 201031 Elm Avenue Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LY
Received 11 Mar 2010358 Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TJ
Received 11 Mar 20101A Herman Terrace Chatham ME4 5NX
Received 11 Mar 2010The Old Priory 4 Mill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3BT
Received 10 Mar 2010Block M (Phase 1) Victory Pier Pegasus Way Gillingham Kent ME7 1AF
Received 10 Mar 201056 Higham Road Wainscott Rochester ME3 8BB
Received 10 Mar 2010141 Cedar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JP
Received 9 Mar 201013 Parker Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NQ
Received 10 Mar 2010Land Adjacent To 1 Benenden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4NU
Received 9 Mar 20107 Saxon Close Strood Rochester ME2 3RR
Received 26 Feb 201069 Heritage Drive Darland Gillingham ME7 3EQ
Received 3 Mar 201054 Trinity Road Gillingham ME7 1JA
Received 9 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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