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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2,730 approved · 4,834 refused · 1,617 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Chatsworth Drive Strood Rochester ME2 4RH
Received 15 Apr 201015 Savage Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8DZ
Received 15 Apr 2010223 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2TL
Received 15 Apr 201041 Lakewood Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NS
Received 14 Apr 2010The Marlborough Centre 41A Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0DQ
Received 13 Apr 2010Tesco Courteney Road Gillingham Kent
Received 15 Apr 20102 Ash Tree Lane Darland Chatham ME5 7BZ
Received 13 Apr 2010Land North-East Of Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 12 Apr 201011 Lakewood Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NS
Received 13 Apr 2010Land Rear Of Orchard Leigh 48 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AR
Received 12 Apr 2010Estate Road And Ground Remodeling Phase Land North East Of Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent ME3 9ND
Received 12 Apr 2010107 Windsor Road Gillingham ME7 4QL
Received 12 Apr 2010Access Road To 29 31 33 35 And 37 Redshank Road St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3NX
Received 12 Apr 201013 Willowbank Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TW
Received 12 Apr 2010All Faiths Childrens Community School Gun Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4UF
Received 12 Apr 2010Brunner 2A Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UD
Received 13 Apr 201037 Albury Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UW
Received 13 Apr 2010Biowaste Recovery Ltd Matts Hill Farm Hartlip ME9 7UY
Received 13 Apr 2010Great Knox Farm Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3QL
Received 8 Apr 20103 New Road Chatham ME4 4QJ
Received 13 Apr 201097 Hamilton Road Gillingham ME7 1QL
Received 12 Apr 201054 Norman Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TQ
Received 12 Apr 201069 - 71 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 12 Apr 20101 Elm Road Gillingham ME7 2NR
Received 12 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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