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2,730 approved · 4,791 refused · 1,592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Land To Rear Of 146 Rede Court Road Strood Kent ME2 3TU
Received 16 Dec 201040 Winchelsea Road Princes Park Chatham ME5 7LY
Received 16 Dec 20109 Watermeadow Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QF
Received 16 Dec 2010Adjacent To 31 St. Albans Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 15 Dec 201026 & 28 Essex Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AU
Received 14 Dec 2010Newlands Farm Cottage Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 13 Dec 2010Stoke Garage High Street Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9RD
Received 13 Dec 20107 Osprey Avenue Darland Gillingham ME7 3AD
Received 16 Dec 2010Silver Star 134 Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8AJ
Received 16 Dec 201022 Beaulieu Rise Rochester ME1 2PQ
Received 16 Dec 2010Hollyberry Christmas Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SN
Received 16 Dec 2010The Compass Centre North Road Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 4YG
Received 15 Dec 201049 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4LA
Received 15 Dec 2010Flat 4 Herberts Court High Street Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9EH
Received 14 Dec 20101 & 2 Woolmans Wood Water Supply Reservoir Maidstone Road Chatham Kent ME5 9SD
Received 15 Dec 2010118-120 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AU
Received 15 Dec 2010Retaining Wall Abutting Building No. BR007A Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham Kent ME4 4UG
Received 15 Dec 2010Abergeldie 25 Maidstone Road Chatham Kent
Received 13 Dec 2010268 Lower Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2TR
Received 13 Dec 2010123 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SL
Received 16 Dec 201043 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AQ
Received 13 Dec 2010139 Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QD
Received 13 Dec 2010Units 3 & 4 Darland Water Supply Reservoir Star Mill Lane Chatham Kent ME5 7HB
Received 14 Dec 2010Land To The North/South Sides Of Lower Rainham Road Rainham Kent
Received 13 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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