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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2,730 approved · 4,813 refused · 1,606 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 30 Jul 201040 Kit Hill Avenue Walderslade Chatham Kent ME5 9EX
Received 30 Jul 2010327 Churchill Avenue Chatham Kent ME5 Ola
Received 4 Aug 2010Land Adjacent To 62 Sir Evelyn Road Rochester Kent ME1
Received 2 Aug 2010Land Adjacent To 62 Sir Evelyn Road And Rear Of Borstal Reservoir Rochester Kent
Received 2 Aug 2010107 Woodside Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0PW
Received 4 Aug 2010218 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 10 Aug 2010Land At Knight Road And Norman Close Strood Kent
Received 2 Aug 2010Land At Cooling Marshes Approximately 2KM North Of Cooling Village With Connecting Access Track To Cooling Road West Of Cooling Village Kent.
Received 3 Aug 201019 Birling Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HB
Received 3 Aug 2010Land At Knight Road And Norman Close Strood Kent
Received 2 Aug 20106 Sherwood House Walderslade Centre Walderslade Chatham Kent ME5 9UD
Received 3 Aug 2010273 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QJ
Received 3 Aug 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 3 Aug 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 2 Aug 20107 Underdown Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 5XR
Received 3 Aug 2010Land At Cooling Marshes Approximately 2KM North Of Cooling Village With Connecting Access Track To Cooling Road West Of Cooling Village Kent.
Received 2 Aug 2010Land East Of Lower Stoke Kent
Received 2 Aug 2010Rsme Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham Kent
Received 2 Aug 2010Town And Country Cars 30 London Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 6YX
Received 2 Aug 201063 Pankhurst Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DG
Received 2 Aug 201012 Rainham Road Chatham ME5 7EJ
Received 2 Aug 201012 Rainham Road Gillingham Chatham ME5 7EJ
Received 2 Aug 201061 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3NB
Received 2 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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