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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2,730 approved · 4,834 refused · 1,617 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Barkis Close Rochester ME1 2BT
Received 28 Apr 201049 Elm Avenue Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LZ
Received 28 Apr 2010Mid Kent College Of Higher & Further Education City Way Rochester ME1 2AD
Received 27 Apr 2010Former Mid Kent College City Way Centre City Way Rochester Kent ME1 2AD
Received 27 Apr 2010Former Priestfields Nursery Priestfields Rochester Kent
Received 27 Apr 201011 Haven Way St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3LB
Received 27 Apr 2010Land Opposite 9 & 11 Primrose Close Chatham Kent
Received 23 Apr 2010Land To R/O 107 Kent Road (Fronting Essex Road) Halling Rochester ME2 1AT
Received 27 Apr 20102 Abbey Road Gillingham ME8 6AP
Received 22 Apr 20105 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AA
Received 22 Apr 201047 Resolution Close Chatham Kent ME5 7RJ
Received 27 Apr 201055 Lansdowne Road Chatham ME4 6LJ
Received 26 Apr 20104 Victoria Mews Church Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QD
Received 22 Apr 201012 Rainham Road Gillingham Chatham ME5 7EJ
Received 26 Apr 201079 Cleave Road Gillingham ME7 4AX
Received 26 Apr 201015 The Everglades Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PY
Received 26 Apr 2010Armour Plate Shop Main Gate Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 22 Oct 2009120 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4EB
Received 26 Apr 2010Industrial Unit Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 19 Apr 2010Industrial Unit Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 19 Apr 2010Kings Head Hotel 58 High Street Rochester ME1 1LD
Received 15 Apr 201025 Marion Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9QA
Received 23 Apr 2010200 High Street Chatham ME4 4AS
Received 23 Apr 2010The Recreation Ground Land Rear Of The Village Hall Church Street Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7TQ
Received 21 Apr 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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