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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2,730 approved · 4,791 refused · 1,592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 20 Dec 2010Medway Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham Kent ME7 5NY
Received 20 Dec 2010Tesco Stores Courteney Road Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 20 Dec 201080 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PN
Received 20 Dec 201037 Brendon Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8JG
Received 17 Dec 2010Church Cottage 4 St Marys Hall Cottages The Street St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RH
Received 20 Dec 201021 Holland Road Horsted Chatham ME5 9TN
Received 20 Dec 2010Gillingham Park Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5LA
Received 20 Dec 2010576 City Way Rochester ME1 2TW
Received 17 Dec 201049 Peverel Green Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9UH
Received 15 Dec 2010Napier Community School Napier Road Gillingham ME7 4HG
Received 20 Dec 201075 Windermere Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DX
Received 20 Dec 201024 New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 20 Dec 2010Ferndale 44 Grain Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0ND
Received 20 Dec 20109 Little York Meadows Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UT
Received 20 Dec 201078 Nightingale Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 8HR
Received 21 Dec 2010Mid Kent College Medway Campus Medway Road Gillingham ME7 1FN
Received 17 Dec 2010Units 2 & 3 Wigmore Water Supply Reservoir Maidstone Road Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0GW
Received 17 Dec 2010Mid Kent College Medway Campus Medway Road Gillingham ME7 1FN
Received 17 Dec 20108 Sandpiper Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8ND
Received 17 Dec 2010213 Station Road Rainham ME8 7PS
Received 17 Dec 2010Land R/O 30 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SP
Received 17 Dec 201029 Beechwood Avenue Darland Chatham ME5 7HJ
Received 15 Dec 20108 Cobblestones Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3NT
Received 16 Dec 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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