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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2,730 approved · 4,807 refused · 1,602 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10A Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AH
Received 26 Aug 201031-33 Skinner Street Chatham ME4 5RQ
Received 26 Aug 201017 Graveney Close Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8LB
Received 26 Aug 2010Land Between The Mount And 136 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LQ
Received 25 Aug 2010Greenacres Nashenden Lane Borstal ME1 3JQ
Received 26 Aug 2010Temple Mill Primary School Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NL
Received 24 Aug 20106 Locarno Avenue Gillingham ME8 6ET
Received 24 Aug 201014 Manor Road Chatham ME4 6AG
Received 25 Aug 2010Land Adjoining Unit 6 Medway Distribution Centre Courteney Road Gillingham Kent ME8 0RX
Received 25 Aug 2010Land Rear Of 2-6 Gerald Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 5TF
Received 25 Aug 2010BP Oil UK Limited Isle Of Grain Terminal Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0HA
Received 24 Aug 2010Gymnasium Building Pembroke Road ME4 4TB
Received 18 Aug 2010Land Adjacent To 16 Rover Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8SX
Received 24 Aug 2010Land At 32A 32B And 32C Yarrow Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0SG
Received 24 Aug 20105 Sylvan Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AD
Received 24 Aug 2010289 Dale Street Chatham ME4 6QR
Received 30 Sept 201012 Holmside Gillingham ME7 4BD
Received 23 Aug 2010Fort Amherst Khartoum Road Brompton Gillingham Chatham ME4 4UB
Received 23 Aug 20101 Louisville Avenue Gillingham ME7 4EJ
Received 24 Aug 2010172 City Way Rochester ME1 2AU
Received 24 Aug 20103 Dock Road Chatham ME4 4SJ (Land At 1 Dock Road Chatham)
Received 23 Aug 2010Grain LNG Ltd Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 10 Aug 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 23 Aug 201046 Kit Hill Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9EX
Received 23 Aug 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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