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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2,730 approved · 4,819 refused · 1,609 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Ten Acre Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 8TL
Received 14 Jul 2010208 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3LP
Received 13 Jul 2010Cpi Mackays Badger Road Chatham Kent ME5 8TD
Received 13 Jul 201099 Courtfield Avenue Lordswood Chatham ME5 8QE
Received 14 Jul 2010Temple Park (Formerly Alloy Wheels) Priory Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 13 Jul 2010Phase 1 Temple Park (Formerly Alloy Wheels) Priory Road Strood Kent
Received 13 Jul 201048 Holmside Gillingham ME7 4BE
Received 13 Jul 201049 Wilson Avenue Rochester Kent
Received 13 Jul 20102 School Cottages Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8ER
Received 13 Jul 2010223 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DL
Received 12 Jul 201031 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DT
Received 12 Jul 2010Michael Gill Building Tolgate Lane Strood Rochester
Received 12 Jul 2010National Grid Grain LNG Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 12 Jul 201014 Duncan Road Gillingham ME7 4LE
Received 8 Jul 2010Former Priestfields Nursery Priestfields Rochester Kent
Received 9 Jul 201022 Brookmead Road Cliffe Woods Rochester Kent ME3 8HJ
Received 2 Jul 2010Rainham Mark Grammar School Pump Lane Gillingham ME8 7AJ
Received 5 Jul 201037 Brendon Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8JG
Received 9 Jul 2010Temple Park (Formerly Alloy Wheels) Priory Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BE
Received 12 Jul 2010Temple Park (Former Alloy Wheels) Priory Road Strood Rochester ME2 2EG
Received 12 Jul 2010Hilltop Primary School Hilltop Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4QN
Received 9 Jul 2010Baptist Church Waltham Road Gillingham ME8 6XE
Received 12 Jul 2010Baptist Church Waltham Road Gillingham ME8 6XE
Received 12 Jul 2010Bonera Platt The Street High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SG
Received 9 Jul 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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