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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2,730 approved · 4,791 refused · 1,592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Primrose Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HX
Received 26 Nov 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 25 Nov 2010Kingsnorth Commercial Park Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent ME3 9ND
Received 29 Nov 2010Former Chatham Service Station Dock Road (Corner Of Westcourt Street) Chatham Kent
Received 29 Nov 2010Unit 8 Matts Hill Farm Matts Hill Road Hartlip Sittingbourne Kent. ME9 7UY
Received 25 Nov 2010Unit 3 Matts Hill Farm Matts Hill Lane Rainham Gillingham ME9 7UY
Received 26 Nov 201019-21 Victoria Street Rochester ME1 1XJ
Received 3 Sept 201098 Trafalgar Street Gillingham ME7 4RN
Received 26 Nov 2010Conservancy Building Rochester Guildhall 17 High Street Rochester ME1 1PY
Received 26 Nov 2010Tresco 29 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JH
Received 25 Nov 2010Land East Of Bells Lane Northern Parcel Of Land Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 25 Nov 2010Land East Of Bells Lane Northern Parcel Of Land Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 25 Nov 2010Unit 7 Matts Hill Farm Matts Hill Road Hartlip Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7UY
Received 25 Nov 201019-21 Victoria Street Rochester ME1 1XJ
Received 3 Sept 20108 Academy Drive Darland Gillingham ME7 3EG
Received 24 Nov 201074A Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LD
Received 24 Nov 2010Rochester Library Adult Education Centre High Street Rochester ME1 1EW
Received 26 Nov 201090A Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AE
Received 25 Nov 201018 The Rise Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SS
Received 26 Nov 201054 Vicarage Close Halling Rochester ME2 1BH
Received 24 Nov 2010Land South Of Stoke Road Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 24 Nov 2010Land Adjoining 31 Purbeck Road Chatham Kent ME4 6ED
Received 24 Nov 2010Land Adjacent 29 May Road Rochester Kent
Received 24 Nov 2010Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 24 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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