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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2,730 approved · 4,807 refused · 1,602 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Total Service Station Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3LT
Received 15 Sept 201012 Melody Close Hempstead Gillingham ME8 0NH
Received 14 Sept 201054 Vicarage Close Halling Rochester ME2 1BH
Received 13 Sept 201016 Gayhurst Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EA
Received 14 Sept 2010The Old Clock Tower Main Gate Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 10 Sept 201042 Goddington Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DE
Received 14 Sept 201033 London Road Strood Rochester ME2 3JB
Received 6 Sept 2010259 City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 13 Sept 201021 Prinys Drive Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0RB
Received 10 Sept 2010501 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Kent ME8 7TW
Received 13 Sept 201038 Holly Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JT
Received 8 Sept 201025 Turner Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QL
Received 7 Sept 2010Land Rear Of 146 Rede Court Road Strood Kent ME2 3TU
Received 13 Sept 201020 Apollo Way St Marys Island Gillingham Chatham ME4 3AP
Received 13 Sept 2010248 High Street Halling Rochester Kent ME2 1BZ
Received 10 Sept 201014 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4LE
Received 13 Sept 2010576 City Way Rochester ME1 2TW
Received 13 Sept 20102A Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AA
Received 13 Sept 2010E.On UK Plc Kingsnorth Power Station Power Station Access Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9NQ
Received 10 Sept 2010Maydown Cookham Hill Borstal Rochester ME1 3HB
Received 13 Sept 2010Halling Service Station 1 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BW
Received 10 Sept 2010501 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TN
Received 13 Sept 201021 Cagney Close Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AY
Received 7 Sept 2010Rear Of 114 Maidstone Road (Fronting Scott's Terrace) Chatham Kent ME4 6DJ
Received 13 Sept 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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