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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2,096 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
St Marys Catholic Primary School Greenfield Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1YH
Received 23 Jul 2009Units 4 & 5 92-94 Hopewell Drive Chatham ME5 7PY
Received 30 Jul 2009Garages Between 17 & 19 Campion Close Walderslade Chatham Kent ME5 0PJ
Received 29 Jul 2009242 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JN
Received 12 Aug 2009240 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6JN
Received 12 Aug 20092 Ham River Hill Cliffe Rochester ME3 8EX
Received 31 Jul 2009206 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2QT
Received 17 Aug 20099 & 11 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RS
Received 17 Jun 2009Delce Infant School Fleet Road Rochester Medway ME1 2NJ
Received 28 Jul 2009Land Adjacent To 31 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DT
Received 4 Aug 200999 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AT
Received 14 Aug 2009Former Priestfields Nursery Priestfields Rochester Kent
Received 6 Aug 200991 Hamelin Road Gillingham ME7 3ER
Received 15 Jul 2009Plot 1 Anthony's Way Medway City Estate Frindsbury Rochester. Kent.
Received 12 Aug 200920 Jeyes Road Gillingham ME7 5XD
Received 30 Jul 200997 Bryant Road Strood Rochester ME2 3ES
Received 29 Jul 2009227 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SW
Received 3 Aug 200972 Georgian Way Gillingham Kent ME8 0RA
Received 6 Aug 2009139 Twydall Lane Gillingham ME8 6JU
Received 17 Jul 2009261 Napier Road Gillingham ME7 4LY
Received 6 Aug 20098 Grizedale Close Rochester ME1 2UX
Received 11 Aug 2009Co-Op Supermarket Ship And Trades Building Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Medway ME4 3ER
Received 4 Aug 2009Co-Op Supermarket Ship And Trades Building Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham Medway ME4 3ER
Received 4 Aug 200999 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6HY
Received 5 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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