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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2,730 approved · 4,831 refused · 1,613 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Tuffs Cottages Grain Road Lower Stoke Rochester ME3 9RW
Received 31 May 2010183 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HA
Received 31 May 201053 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3SZ
Received 28 May 2010Land Rear Of 108-114 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4BY
Received 28 May 2010265 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QH
Received 28 May 20106 Carisbrooke Road Strood Rochester ME2 3SN
Received 28 May 201026 Grain Road Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0NB
Received 28 May 201033 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0SP
Received 28 May 201070 Luton High Street Luton Chatham ME5 7LJ
Received 28 May 201032 Burleigh Close Strood Rochester ME2 3TQ
Received 28 May 20101 Burnt Oak Terrace Gillingham ME7 1DP
Received 28 May 201012 Railway Street Chatham ME4 4JL
Received 21 May 201030 Purbeck Road Chatham ME4 6ED
Received 14 May 2010163 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TH
Received 21 May 2010169 Victoria Street Gillingham ME7 1EJ
Received 19 May 2010The Sports Ground Bournville Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 6LR
Received 27 May 2010Cuxton Library Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EY
Received 27 May 2010Great Lines Heritage Park Brompton Road Gillingham Kent
Received 25 May 201061 Sunnymead Avenue Gillingham ME7 2DZ
Received 24 May 201094-100 Trafalgar Street Gillingham ME7 4RN
Received 26 May 201022 Weeds Wood Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0QS
Received 26 May 2010235 City Way Rochester ME1 2TL
Received 25 May 2010Skinner Street Primary School Skinner Street Gillingham ME7 1LG
Received 25 May 2010Unit 7 Invicta Business Centre Bredgar Road Gillingham ME8 6PG
Received 26 May 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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