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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2,730 approved · 4,819 refused · 1,609 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
483 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7TN
Received 12 Jul 2010Deangate Ridge Golf & Sports Complex Dux Court Road Hoo ME3 8RZ
Received 9 Jul 2010Land Between The Sunlight Centre And 109 Richmond Road Gillingham
Received 6 Jul 2010199 Church Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QE
Received 6 Jul 201043 Chalk Pit Hill Chatham ME4 5SU
Received 8 Jul 201026 Marsh Crescent High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TJ
Received 8 Jul 201025 27 29 & 31 Corporation Street Rochester ME1 1ND
Received 7 Jul 2010Baytree Cottage Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester ME3 9PG
Received 7 Jul 2010Land Rear Of 153 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HA
Received 7 Jul 20109 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3LZ
Received 25 Jun 2010St Margaret's Church Saxton Street Gillingham ME7 5EH
Received 7 Jul 2010Tilbury Essex
Received 6 Jul 201030 Longfield Avenue High Halstow Rochester Kent ME3 8TD
Received 7 Jul 2010Total Service Station Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3LT
Received 8 Jul 201036 Holland Road Horsted Chatham ME5 9TW
Received 7 Jul 20102 Cross Way Rochester ME1 3DX
Received 8 Jul 2010199 Church Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QE
Received 6 Jul 201055 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AW
Received 14 Jul 2010Units A & B The Smithery The Historic Dockyard Chatham Kent ME4 4TZ
Received 6 Jul 2010Peckham Cottage 143 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XT
Received 6 Jul 2010Peckham Cottage 143 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XT
Received 6 Jul 201059 Chalfont Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9DW
Received 6 Jul 2010Grain Power Station Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 6 Jul 201025 Temple Gardens Strood Rochester ME2 2NQ
Received 6 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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