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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1,997 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
1 Maryland Court Rainham Gillingham ME8 8QY
Received 12 Jun 2009Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester Kent ME3 8DT
Received 6 Jul 2009Roseberry Road Recreation Ground Rosebery Road Chatham Medway ME4 6LG
Received 8 Jun 2009Land Adjacent To 68 St Leonards Avenue Chatham ME4 6HE
Received 23 Jun 2009305 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0LY
Received 12 Jun 200911 Little York Meadows Gillingham Medway ME7 2UT
Received 4 Jun 2009134 Mierscourt Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8JN
Received 3 Jul 20094 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TL
Received 22 Jun 2009242 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 8AX
Received 29 Jun 200946 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BX
Received 8 Jul 200966 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AW
Received 26 Jun 200912 Bridge Road Rochester ME1 2JN
Received 6 Jul 2009Tesco Stores Ltd Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0GX
Received 6 Jul 200910 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0AA
Received 8 Jul 200969 Elmstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BE
Received 8 Jul 20094 Tennyson Avenue Cliffe Rochester ME3 8JF
Received 9 Jul 2009165 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 1 Jun 2009Great Lines Heritage Park Gillingham/Chatham Kent
Received 29 Jun 200912 Reedham Crescent Cliffe Rochester ME3 8HT
Received 19 Jun 200914 Bolner Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9PJ
Received 9 Jul 2009Land South Of Wingrove Drive Strood Rochester Kent
Received 21 May 200946 Sedge Crescent Chatham ME5 0QD
Received 25 Jun 200943 Chaffinch Close Chatham ME5 7RG
Received 29 Jun 2009Car Park Off Maidstone Road Wigmore
Received 15 Jun 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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