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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2,730 approved · 4,797 refused · 1,594 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 1 Matts Hill Farm Matts Hill Road Hartlip Sittingbourne Kent
Received 12 Nov 201025 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PQ
Received 16 Nov 201011 Gordon Terrace Rochester ME1 1SB
Received 29 Oct 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 15 Nov 20103 Skinner Street Gillingham ME7 1HD
Received 15 Nov 2010180-184 Maidstone Road Chatham Kent ME4 6EW
Received 10 Nov 2010Land At Cooling Marshes Approximately 2KM North Of Cooling Village With Connecting Access Track To Cooling Road West Of Cooling Village Kent.
Received 15 Nov 2010Regional Planning Office (Former Tesco Distribution Centre) Knight Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 2JE
Received 15 Nov 201019 Lakewood Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NS
Received 12 Nov 2010Strood Fire Station Gravesend Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QT
Received 15 Nov 2010181 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0ND
Received 15 Nov 20107 Highfield Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0EQ
Received 16 Nov 201090 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AE
Received 15 Nov 201029 William Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8HN
Received 16 Nov 2010106-108 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2DH
Received 15 Nov 201032 Georgian Way Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QZ
Received 12 Nov 2010Land At: Former Oil Refinery East Of Grain Power Station Grain Road; Port Victoria Road; And Adjacent To And Including Foreshore East Of Grain Village Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 12 Nov 201033B Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7LZ
Received 12 Nov 2010Wagon Lodge And Granary At Manor Farm West Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7TH
Received 12 Nov 201068 Jackson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SX
Received 12 Nov 2010Fort Pit (Former Mid Kent College) City Way Rochester Kent ME1 2AD
Received 12 Nov 2010217 Wayfield Road Wayfield Chatham ME5 0HG
Received 12 Nov 2010The Rifleman 155 Thorold Road Luton Chatham ME5 7DR
Received 13 Nov 2010Land Rear Of 243 Lordswood Lane Chatham ME5 8JU
Received 12 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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