Understanding planning · 13 min read
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2,730 approved · 4,803 refused · 1,595 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
226 High Street Rainham Kent ME8 8AX
Received 19 Oct 201010 Croft Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8TT
Received 22 Oct 2010150 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AJ
Received 22 Oct 201014 Capel Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9TE
Received 21 Oct 2010Tesco Store Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 21 Oct 2010615 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TX
Received 21 Oct 200956 Henry Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8HF
Received 21 Oct 2010201-207 (Riverside Motoring Centre) Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PS
Received 22 Oct 2010Unit 34 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 3ED
Received 21 Oct 201022 Hawkhurst Road Twydall Gillingham Kent ME8 6MU
Received 21 Oct 2010Bridgewater House Parbrook Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8QG
Received 21 Oct 2010Hilltop Primary School Hilltop Road Frindsbury Rochester Kent
Received 18 Oct 2010332 High Street Chatham ME4 4NR
Received 20 Oct 201011 Cecil Avenue Gillingham ME8 6EH
Received 19 Oct 20104 Admirals Walk Walderslade Chatham ME5 8NL
Received 20 Oct 201078 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 21 Oct 201052 Tuscan Drive Lordswood Chatham ME5 8TG
Received 20 Oct 2010110 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8AR
Received 18 Oct 2010180-184 Maidstone Road Chatham Kent ME4 6EW
Received 13 Oct 20101 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BW
Received 19 Oct 20101A West Drive Horsted Chatham ME5 9XG
Received 18 Oct 20101 Marshland View Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9SW
Received 19 Oct 20109 Watermeadow Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QF
Received 18 Oct 2010225 High Street Chatham ME4 4BQ
Received 11 Oct 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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