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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2,730 approved · 4,807 refused · 1,602 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 23 Riverside Estate Sir Thomas Longley Road Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DP
Received 2 Sept 201083 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 3BJ
Received 1 Sept 2010Foordside House 60 Foord Street Rochester Kent ME1 2BX
Received 1 Sept 2010Regional Personnel Office Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JE
Received 26 Aug 2010Land Adjacent To 62 Sir Evelyn Road And Rear Of Borstal Reservoir Rochester Kent
Received 26 Aug 201033 Springvale Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JG
Received 31 Aug 201058 Clarence Road Luton Chatham ME4 5EH
Received 31 Aug 2010Oak Lodge Capstone Road Lordswood Chatham Gillingham ME7 3QW
Received 31 Aug 201082 Longfellow Road Gillingham ME7 5QQ
Received 31 Aug 20104 William Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1DL
Received 31 Aug 201016 Abbey Road Gillingham ME8 6AP
Received 1 Sept 201087-89 High Street Chatham ME4 4EE
Received 1 Sept 201084A High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AR
Received 2 Sept 2010223 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DL
Received 24 Aug 2010Medway Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham Kent ME7 5NY
Received 26 Aug 20101 Marshland View Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9SW
Received 26 Aug 2010Fort Amherst Khartoum Road Brompton Gillingham Chatham ME4 4UB
Received 27 Aug 2010Rochester Riverside Phase 1A (I & II) Land On Southern Bank Of River Medway And East Of The London/Dover Railway Line Including Doust Wat Car Park Rochester Kent
Received 27 Aug 2010Lordswood Junior School Lordswood Lane Lordswood Chatham ME5 8NN
Received 31 Aug 2010Rear Of Merryboys Plot 1 Merryboys Road Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7TD
Received 27 Aug 2010Homeside Symonds Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7SS
Received 27 Aug 2010London Thamesport Ltd Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0EP
Received 26 Aug 20105 Phillips Court Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JD
Received 26 Aug 201048 Thorndale Close Chatham Kent ME5 9SW
Received 26 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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