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2,730 approved · 4,791 refused · 1,592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
1A Brompton Lane Strood Rochester ME2 3BH
Received 24 Nov 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 1 Dec 201071A Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1RL
Received 1 Dec 201089 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4JY
Received 29 Nov 201041 The Street Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JB
Received 29 Nov 2010334 High Street Chatham ME4 4NR
Received 2 Dec 201022 Montrose Avenue Darland Chatham ME5 7HU
Received 1 Dec 2010McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Medway Valley Leisure Park Roman Way Rochester Kent ME2 2SS
Received 25 Nov 2010196 High Street Rochester ME1 1EY
Received 1 Dec 2010Garage Block Adjacent To 2C Reform Road Chatham Kent ME4 5HP
Received 26 Nov 2010Land East Of Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 25 Nov 2010118A High Street Gillingham ME7 1AU
Received 1 Dec 2010Land East Of Bells Lane (Northern Parcel Of Land) Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 25 Nov 201031 The Platters Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DJ
Received 2 Dec 2010Greenvale Infant School Symons Avenue Chatham ME4 5UP
Received 1 Dec 2010Land Front Of 291 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4BP
Received 30 Nov 2010Land To The Front Of 214 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4AP
Received 30 Nov 2010Land To The Front Of 184-190 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4AX
Received 30 Nov 201025 Swain Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0SN
Received 25 Nov 2010Land To Rear Of Cranford Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HD
Received 30 Nov 201015 Solomon Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8EA
Received 30 Nov 2010Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham ME7 5NY
Received 30 Nov 2010Fidentia House Walter Burke Way (Site G3) Chatham Maritime Gillingham Chatham ME4 4RN
Received 26 Nov 201014 Millcroft Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QN
Received 26 Nov 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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