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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2,730 approved · 4,819 refused · 1,609 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
95-99 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6HY
Received 21 Jul 201010 Saxon Close Strood Rochester ME2 3RR
Received 22 Jul 201034 Grain Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0ND
Received 21 Jul 201095 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2ES
Received 21 Jul 2010Unit 2 Dajen Business Park Second Avenue Luton Chatham ME4 5AU
Received 21 Jul 2010548 City Way Rochester ME1 2TW
Received 20 Jul 201073 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2ES
Received 20 Jul 2010University Of Greenwich At Medway Central Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 4TB
Received 21 Jul 2010Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3EL
Received 20 Jul 20105 Cowbeck Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9NN
Received 19 Jul 201063 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3SZ
Received 20 Jul 20101 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 19 Jul 201023 Trubridge Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EN
Received 19 Jul 201037 Springvale Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JG
Received 19 Jul 2010Parklands Resource Centre Oxford Road Gillingham ME7 4BY
Received 16 Jul 2010Land Between The Mount And 136 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LQ
Received 15 Jul 201018 Marquis Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3DR
Received 3 Sept 2010Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Both Sides Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 15 Jul 201020 Hillcrest Drive Cuxton Rochester ME2 1AA
Received 19 Jul 201020 Pembury Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DL
Received 19 Jul 201030 Rosebery Road Gillingham ME7 1PP
Received 16 Jul 201081 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UG
Received 16 Jul 2010Land East Of London/Dover Railway Line Between The Railway Bridge Crossing The Medway And Doust Way Excluding 7-28 Castleview Business Park Acorn Shipyard And The PB Business Group Premises And Partly Fronting Corporation Street Rochester
Received 16 Jul 201021 Penshurst Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DT
Received 15 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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