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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2,730 approved · 4,849 refused · 1,626 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Cooling Marshes Approximately 2KM North Of Cooling Village With Connecting Access Track To Cooling Road West Of Cooling Village Kent.
Received 24 Mar 2010Howlands Nursery And Land To The North Of Howlands Nursery Christmas Street Gillingham Kent
Received 26 Feb 201037-41 Sawyers Court Luton Chatham Kent ME4 5JH
Received 24 Feb 2010146 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0PQ
Received 23 Feb 2010219 Frindsbury Hill Wainscott Rochester ME2 4JS
Received 23 Feb 2010Land To Rear 281 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8JU
Received 18 Feb 20103 Corporation Road Gillingham ME7 1RH
Received 21 Aug 2009Clarendon Public House 1 Church Street Gillingham ME7 1SW
Received 17 Feb 201060 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2PX
Received 19 Feb 201022 Stuart Road Gillingham ME7 4AB
Received 23 Feb 201031-33 Skinner Street Chatham ME4 5RQ
Received 23 Feb 2010231 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JL
Received 23 Feb 2010221 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham Medway ME8 0TN
Received 23 Feb 2010Unit 1 Cuxton Road Industrial Estate Cuxton Road Strood Rocester Kent ME2 2BT
Received 22 Feb 2010The Pharmacy (Paydens) The Healthy Living Centre Balmoral Gardens Gillingham Kent ME7 4BA
Received 22 Feb 201025A Rosebery Road Gillingham ME7 1QQ
Received 22 Feb 2010Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4TG
Received 17 Feb 2010Phase 1 Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent
Received 19 Feb 2010New Road School And Nursery Unit Bryant Street Chatham ME4 5QN
Received 22 Feb 20109 Grange Way Rochester ME1 3DU
Received 22 Feb 2010H M Prison Rochester ME1 3QS
Received 22 Feb 201022 Jiniwin Road Rochester ME1 2DJ
Received 22 Feb 201066 Greenfinches Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PW
Received 22 Feb 2010237 High Street Rochester ME1 1HQ
Received 19 Feb 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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