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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2,730 approved · 4,831 refused · 1,613 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 1 Merryboys Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TP
Received 20 May 201013 Bulldog Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8SL
Received 20 May 2010Cemex Rochester Works Formby Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AW
Received 19 May 2010Currys And PC World Horsted Retail Park Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SQ
Received 20 May 2010Land North-East Of Kingsnorth Industrial Estate Kingsnorth Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 18 May 201014 Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BQ
Received 20 May 2010Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 19 May 2010Four Four Two Club Featherby Road Gillingham Kent ME8 6AN
Received 20 May 2010263-265 High Street Chatham ME4 4BZ
Received 20 May 2010Copperfields 52A River Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3JR
Received 20 May 201025 Ansell Avenue Chatham ME4 5UB
Received 20 May 2010New Brompton College Marlborough Road Gillingham ME7 5HT
Received 19 May 2010263-265 High Street Chatham ME4 4BZ
Received 19 May 2010Parkwood Youth Centre Deanwood Drive Gillingham Kent ME8 9PN
Received 19 May 2010Phase 1 Victory Per Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME71RL
Received 19 May 20105 Crestway Wayfield Chatham ME5 0BB
Received 19 May 2010102-106 High Street Chatham ME4 4BY
Received 18 May 2010Theatre Royal And Bank Premises 102-106 High Street Chatham ME4 4BY
Received 18 May 2010Cozenton Park Bloors Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DU
Received 19 May 2010Merryboys House Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester. ME3 7TJ
Received 19 May 201048 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TU
Received 14 May 2010190 Wayfield Road Chatham ME5 0HG
Received 19 May 2010Brompton Westbrook Primary School Kings Bastion Brompton Gillingham ME7 5DQ
Received 18 May 201048 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TU
Received 14 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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