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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2,730 approved · 4,807 refused · 1,602 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
75 Durham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JJ
Received 6 Sept 2010Unit 5 Rochester Trade Park Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3QY
Received 5 Sept 201030 Trinity Road Gillingham ME7 1JA
Received 7 Sept 2010Luton Junior School Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AW
Received 8 Sept 201027 St Georges Road Gillingham ME7 1JG
Received 7 Sept 2010Lampard Centre Sally Port Gardens Brompton Gillingham Kent ME7 5BS
Received 7 Sept 201026 Lingley Drive Wainscott Rochester ME2 4NE
Received 6 Sept 2010Mid Kent College Of Higher & Further Education Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9UQ
Received 6 Sept 2010Land East Of London/Dover Railway Line Between The Railway Bridge Crossing The Medway And Doust Way Excluding 7-28 Castle View Business Park Acorn Shipyard And The PB Group Premises And Partly Fronting Corporation Street Rochester
Received 7 Sept 2010134 Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8AJ
Received 6 Sept 20101-9 Royal Oak House Scott's Terrace Chatham Kent ME4 6QB
Received 6 Sept 2010323 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2ST
Received 6 Sept 2010Land East Of London/Dover Railway Line Between The Railway Bridge Crossing The Medway And Doust Way Excluding 7-28 Castle View Business Park Acorn Shipyard And The PB Business Group Premises And Partly Fronting Corporation Street Rochester
Received 6 Sept 2010175 Beacon Road Chatham ME5 7BS
Received 6 Sept 2010Great Knox Farm Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QL
Received 4 Jan 2011Homeside Symonds Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SS
Received 5 Jan 201180 Aintree Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PQ
Received 6 Jan 20117-11 Central Parade Rochester ME1 2LQ
Received 29 Dec 201060 Durham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JN
Received 14 Dec 20101 And 2 Sharsted Farm Cottages Shawstead Road Gillingham Kent ME7 3JL
Received 13 Dec 201091 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BL
Received 13 Dec 201025 Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4HP
Received 13 Dec 2010200 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0RD
Received 7 Dec 2010Rainham Mark Grammar School Pump Lane Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7AJ
Received 2 Dec 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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