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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2,730 approved · 4,849 refused · 1,626 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Abacus Children's Nurseries Kingfisher Drive Princess Park Walderslade Kent ME5 7NX
Received 25 Feb 20103 Napier Road Gillingham ME7 4HB
Received 25 Feb 2010224 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2YA
Received 24 Mar 201050 Broadwood Road Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LX
Received 23 Feb 2010Greenacres Nashenden Lane Borstal Rochester ME1 3JQ
Received 26 Feb 20102 Barkis Close Rochester ME1 2BT
Received 26 Feb 201013 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PF
Received 25 Feb 20101 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4TA
Received 25 Feb 201011A Jersey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PB
Received 25 Feb 201086 Holmoaks Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DN
Received 25 Feb 2010St Margarets Lodge Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3DD
Received 23 Feb 2010Frankie And Bennys Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 25 Feb 201014 Leybourne Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QG
Received 24 Feb 201061 Sunnymead Avenue Gillingham ME7 2DZ
Received 25 Feb 2010Kingsnorth Power Station Rochester Kent
Received 25 Feb 2010Paul Simon Unit 2 Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 2AD
Received 24 Feb 2010Land Adjoining 28 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UE
Received 24 Feb 201019 Fountain Road Strood Rochester ME2 3SJ
Received 24 Feb 201071 Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BS
Received 24 Feb 201037 New Road Rochester ME1 1DX
Received 24 Feb 2010Parkwood Community Centre Parkwood Green Parkwood Gillingham Kent ME8 9PN
Received 23 Feb 2010Playing Fields To Rear Of Hoo Institute Main Road Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent.
Received 23 Feb 2010100 Lonsdale Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9HZ
Received 23 Feb 201029 Marshall Road Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0AP
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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