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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2,730 approved · 4,819 refused · 1,609 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
72 Bligh Way Strood Rochester ME2 2UT
Received 24 Jun 201044 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3SZ
Received 25 Jun 2010Land At: Former Oil Refinery East Of Grain Power Station Grain Road; Port Victoria Road; And Adjacent To And Including Foreshore East Of Grain Village Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 21 Jun 2010Land At 8 Windmill Close Strood Rochester ME2 3XN
Received 25 Jun 201069 Hawthorn Road Strood Rochester ME2 2HP
Received 25 Jun 2010Unit 1 Dajen Business Park Second Avenue Luton Chatham Kent ME4 5AU
Received 16 Jun 201026 Warden Road Rochester ME1 2JL
Received 23 Jun 201060 Low Meadow Halling Rochester ME2 1LX
Received 23 Jun 201018 The Ridgeway Chatham ME4 6PD
Received 25 Jun 201065 Laburnum Road Strood Rochester ME2 2LA
Received 25 Jun 2010142 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8AR
Received 25 Jun 2010164 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester ME2 2NH
Received 23 Jun 2010Land To R/O 107 Kent Road (Fronting Essex Road) Halling Rochester ME2 1AT
Received 23 Jun 2010Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Strood Kent
Received 25 Jun 2010St. Mary's Island Chatham Kent
Received 23 Jun 2010586 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JY
Received 23 Jun 201042 Wetheral Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8ES
Received 21 Jun 2010402 City Way Rochester ME1 2BQ
Received 18 Jun 2010Land R/O 114-120 Woodlands Road (Fronting Tangmere Close) Gillingham ME7 2SP
Received 17 Jun 2010Sector 9 St Marys Island Gillingham Kent
Received 16 Jun 2010Former Tesco Regional Personnel Office Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2JE
Received 24 Jun 2010Greenacre School 157 Walderslade Road Chatham Kent.
Received 24 Jun 2010Former Sportsman PH 204-216 Eastcourt Lane Twydall Gillingham Kent ME8 6HL
Received 17 Jun 2010Land Adjacent To 141 Laburnum Road Rochester
Received 31 Aug 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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