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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2,730 approved · 4,831 refused · 1,613 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Cloisterham Road Rochester ME1 2BW
Received 7 Jun 2010Manor Farm Barn Parsonage Lane Frindsbury Extra ME2 4UT
Received 7 Jun 201018 Yarrow Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0SG
Received 7 Jun 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 4 Jun 20106 Jefferson Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DB
Received 3 Jun 2010National Grid Grain LNG Limited Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 4 Jun 201048 Asquith Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JD
Received 2 Jun 201046 Asquith Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JD
Received 2 Jun 2010Rsme Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham Kent ME4 4UG
Received 7 Jun 2010465 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0NN
Received 4 Jun 2010118A High Street Gillingham ME7 1AU
Received 3 Jun 20101 Exton Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8QN
Received 3 Jun 20101 Hunters Way Darland Gillingham ME7 3BA
Received 1 Jun 201014 Albury Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UW
Received 2 Jun 2010Junction Of Horsted Way And City Way Chatham Kent ME1 2XQ
Received 3 Jun 2010Merryboys House Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 7TP
Received 2 Jun 2010533A Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QZ
Received 3 Jun 2010Great Lines Heritage Park Gillingham/Chatham Kent
Received 2 Jun 201019 Cambridge Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HW
Received 3 Jun 2010Ajay Autoparts 216-222 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5BS
Received 28 May 2010Corner Of Bredhurst Road & Fairview Avenue Wigmore Gillingham Kent
Received 28 May 2010The Ropemakers Arms 70 New Road Chatham Kent ME4 4QR
Received 28 May 2010Block F/G Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RL
Received 28 May 2010Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3EL
Received 3 Jun 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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