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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2,730 approved · 4,837 refused · 1,620 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
263 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0HA
Received 7 Apr 2010Land On Globe Lane And Riverside Gardens Chatham Kent
Received 6 Apr 2010Balmoral Gardens Gillingham Medway ME7 4PG
Received 1 Apr 2010Michael Gill Building Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4TG
Received 6 Apr 201056 College Avenue Gillingham ME7 5HX
Received 6 Apr 2010Regional Personnel Office Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JE
Received 1 Apr 2010Dickens World Car Park Site J4 Dockhead Road Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4LL
Received 7 Apr 2010106 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester Kent ME2 1HP
Received 6 Apr 2010Twydall Enterprise Centre Lower Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham Kent ME8 6XX
Received 8 Apr 2010187 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2TL
Received 6 Apr 2010164 High Street Rochester ME1 1EX
Received 7 Apr 2010Land At Chegwell Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8HD
Received 24 Mar 2010Wainscott Training Estate Comprising Land North Of Plant Branch Islingham Farm Road ME3 8BD
Received 23 Mar 201062 Kingfisher Drive Princes Park Chatham ME5 7NY
Received 6 Apr 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 6 Apr 2010Ridge Lea Meadow Crescent Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JJ
Received 6 Apr 201028 Broadview Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DD
Received 6 Apr 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 1 Apr 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 1 Apr 201024 Grafton Avenue Rochester ME1 2RP
Received 1 Apr 20106 Rutland Place Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LG
Received 1 Apr 2010Michael Gill Building Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4TG
Received 6 Apr 20101 3 & 5 Toad Hall Crescent Chattenden Rochester Kent ME3 8PS
Received 6 Apr 201011 Portsmouth Close Strood Rochester ME2 2QY
Received 6 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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