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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
2,096 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Reedham Crescent Cliffe Rochester ME3 8HT
Received 1 Sept 2009122B High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4TR
Received 12 Aug 2009Luton Recreation Ground Ash Tree Lane Chatham Kent
Received 17 Aug 2009Land Adjacent To 38 Devonshire Road Gillingham Kent
Received 27 Aug 20094 Long Catlis Road Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9SR
Received 27 Aug 200915 Eastcourt Lane Gillingham ME8 6EU
Received 27 Aug 200919 Birch Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RA
Received 26 Aug 2009234 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2YA
Received 27 Aug 200911 West Drive Chatham ME5 9XG
Received 17 Aug 200914 Bolner Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9PJ
Received 9 Jul 200948 Thorndale Close Chatham ME5 9SW
Received 27 Aug 200983 Hathaway Court Esplanade Rochester Kent
Received 5 Aug 200974 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester ME2 4HY
Received 13 Jul 20092 Skinner Street Gillingham ME7 1HD
Received 26 Aug 2009Havisham House Pips View Cooling Street Cooling Rochester Kent
Received 29 Jul 20093 The Pinnacles St Marys Island Gillingham ME4 3PN
Received 17 Aug 2009174 Nelson Road Gillingham ME7 4LU
Received 11 Aug 200931 Kingston Crescent Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YQ
Received 10 Jul 20098 Meadside Walk Chatham ME5 0TJ
Received 17 Aug 200920 Cypress Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PT
Received 26 Aug 20094 Sherbourne Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3LX
Received 26 Aug 200985 Courtfield Avenue Lordswood Chatham ME5 8QE
Received 26 Aug 2009Land Off Lay-By On A228 Lodge Hill Chattenden Rochester Kent ME3 8NH
Received 22 Jul 20097 Osprey Avenue Gillingham ME7 3AD
Received 27 Aug 2009Records 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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