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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2,730 approved · 4,813 refused · 1,606 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6BZ
Received 12 Aug 2010National Grid Property Holdings Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AE
Received 9 Aug 20104 New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 12 Aug 2010Danecourt Primary School Hotel Road Gillingham ME8 6AA
Received 11 Aug 2010Land At Lower Lines Bounded By Medway Road Cumberland Road Johnson Avenue And Princess Mary Avenue Gillingham Kent
Received 12 Aug 201099 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 13 Aug 20107 Monmouth Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7BQ
Received 12 Aug 2010201 Lower Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6QP
Received 12 Aug 2010Land To Rear Of 103 Harrow Road Hempstead Gillingham Kent ME7 3QB
Received 11 Aug 2010Rear Of 51 Goddington Drive (Fronting Cliffe Road) Strood Kent
Received 11 Aug 2010Danecourt Primary School Hotel Road Gillingham Kent ME8 6AA
Received 11 Aug 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 9 Aug 201019 The Close Rochester ME1 1SD
Received 11 Aug 20101A Bellwood Court St Mary Hoo Rochester ME3 8RT
Received 10 Aug 201022 Parkwood Green Shopping Centre Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9PN
Received 29 Jul 2010Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Valley Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3PD
Received 10 Aug 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 9 Aug 201049 Westmount Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 6DB
Received 10 Aug 2010Newlands Farm Cottage Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7TH
Received 9 Aug 20102-8 Cooling Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4RG
Received 5 Aug 201023 Kellaway Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 8BX
Received 10 Aug 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 4 Aug 2010Grain LNG Ltd Storage Site And Second Site Property Holdings Ltd Site Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 2 Aug 20101 Minor Canon Row Rochester Kent ME1 1ST
Received 26 Jul 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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