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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
1,997 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent 6 Springfield Terrace Old Road Chatham Kent ME4 6BL
Received 13 Jul 2009146 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3TU
Received 19 Jun 2009510 City Way Rochester ME1 2TW
Received 8 Jun 2009Medway Westbound Msa J4/5 M2 Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 8PQ
Received 15 Jul 2009Kingsley House 37-39 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4PF
Received 20 Jul 2009Land Fronting Hills Terrace Chatham Kent
Received 23 Feb 2009St Margarets Cemetery Lodge Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3DD
Received 28 May 2009St Margarets Cemetery Lodge Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3DD
Received 28 May 2009201-207 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PS
Received 14 May 2009305 Walderslade Road Chatham Kent ME5 0NU
Received 1 Jul 20097 Hawkwood Close Rochester ME1 1HW
Received 8 Jul 20096 Wintergreen Close St Marys Island Gillingham ME4 3HP
Received 4 Jun 20091 Callams Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 9ES
Received 8 Jul 200977 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6TS
Received 29 Jun 2009Walderslade Primary School Dargets Road Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 8BJ
Received 3 Jul 200983 Barberry Avenue Chatham ME5 9TA
Received 27 Jun 200937 Broadlands Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8HJ
Received 13 Jul 2009Swallow Risers Playschool Maundene CP School Swallow Rise Walderslade Chatham ME5 7QB
Received 3 Mar 2009Units 1 To 15 Phase 4 Crusader Close Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent ME8 0PR
Received 1 Jun 2009Units A And B Phase 21 Bailey Drive Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent ME8 0RL
Received 1 Jun 2009Units 1-8 Phase 9 Saracen Close Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent ME8 0QN
Received 1 Jun 2009Grange Manor Nursing Home 348 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2UD
Received 11 Jun 2009Danecourt School Hotel Road Gillingham ME8 6AA
Received 1 Jul 20091 Magdalen Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TA
Received 16 Jul 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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