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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2,730 approved · 4,834 refused · 1,617 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Prince Charles Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8EX
Received 9 Apr 20103 Westbrooke Close Chatham ME4 4XX
Received 12 Apr 2010Sector 9 Land Adjacent To Main Street And Island Way West St Mary's Island Chatham Kent
Received 12 Apr 201069 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 12 Apr 2010195 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PH
Received 9 Apr 2010Lower Upnor Riverside Lower Upnor Rochester Kent ME2 4XB
Received 31 Mar 2010Innovation Centre Medway Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9FD
Received 9 Apr 201063 High Street Chatham ME4 4EE
Received 9 Apr 2010Boat Slipway North Of Covered Slip 7 Chatham Dockyard Chatham Kent
Received 8 Apr 201023 Barnfield Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HT
Received 12 Apr 201027 Shepperton Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8RP
Received 8 Apr 201067 Borstal Street Borstal Rochester ME1 3HJ
Received 9 Apr 2010100 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PW
Received 8 Apr 2010Hoo County Primary School Pottery Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9BS
Received 8 Apr 2010Land Adjacent To 94 Haig Avenue Rochester ME1 2RY
Received 9 Apr 2010346B Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2UB
Received 9 Apr 201020 Meadow Close Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0UA
Received 8 Apr 201072A Herbert Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 9DA
Received 8 Apr 201017 Kenilworth Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DR
Received 7 Apr 2010The Barn Courtsole Farm Pond Hill Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QS
Received 10 Feb 2010337-341 High Street Rochester ME1 1DA
Received 8 Apr 2010JCB Medway Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0PZ
Received 7 Apr 20103 Cornwallis Avenue Gillingham ME7 2DH
Received 8 Apr 20101-9 Royal Oak House Scott's Terrace Chatham Kent ME4 6QB
Received 7 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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