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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2,730 approved · 4,791 refused · 1,592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Birling Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 7EY
Received 24 Nov 2010McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Medway Valley Leisure Park Roman Way Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 25 Nov 2010McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Medway Valley Leisure Park Roman Way Rochester Kent ME2 2SS
Received 25 Nov 201066 Stoke Road Hoo Rochester Kent
Received 29 Nov 201014 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4LE
Received 8 Nov 201014 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4LE
Received 8 Nov 2010114 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2QS
Received 23 Nov 2010104 Wayfield Road Wayfield Chatham ME5 0EU
Received 22 Nov 2010Stoke Crossing Lower Stoke And Cooling Marshes Cooling Kent
Received 22 Nov 2010Garage Site Chatham Grove Chatham Kent ME4 6LU
Received 22 Nov 20106 Sherwood House Walderslade Centre Walderslade Chatham ME5 9UD
Received 23 Nov 2010681 Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8RA
Received 23 Nov 2010163 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PG
Received 23 Nov 2010Unit 9 Matts Hill Farm Matts Hill Lane Rainham Gillingham ME9 7UY
Received 25 Nov 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 23 Nov 2010Grace Manor Nursing Home 348 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2UD
Received 23 Nov 2010Adjacent To 21A Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester
Received 19 Nov 20101 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BW
Received 22 Nov 2010Garage Site Chatham Grove Chatham Kent ME4 6LU
Received 22 Nov 2010Halling Primary School Howlsmere Close Halling Rochester ME2 1ER
Received 22 Nov 201026 Hunstanton Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 8RL
Received 22 Nov 201054 Shakespeare Road Gillingham ME7 5QJ
Received 22 Nov 2010Magnolia House 183A Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JG
Received 19 Nov 201083 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 18 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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