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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2,730 approved · 4,913 refused · 1,646 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Thamesport (London) Limited Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0EP
Received 4 Jun 2008174-176 Canterbury Street Gillingham
Received 25 Jun 200839 Garfield Road Gillingham ME7 1QB
Received 23 Jul 2008Former Akzo Chemicals Ltd Pier Road Gillingham. ME7 1RL
Received 24 Jul 200836 & 38 Hyacinth Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 10 Jul 2008St Georges Centre Pembroke Chatham Maritime Gillingham ME4 4UH
Received 17 Jun 200890 Watling Street Gillingham ME7 2YS
Received 9 Jul 2008Noke Street Farm 8-9 Noke Street Wainscott Rochester
Received 17 Jul 2008Veolia Environmental Services Whitewall Road Medway City Estate Strood Rochester Kent.
Received 14 Jul 2008Land Adjacent To 11 And Rear Of 13-23 Swain Close Strood Rochester
Received 8 Jul 2008Land To The Rear Of 56 Station Road Cliffe
Received 2 Jul 2008Part Sites D3 & D4 Eastbridge Chatham Maritime Chatham
Received 7 Jul 2008Land Adj To 46 Kingshill Drive Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JW
Received 7 Jul 200877 Dale Street Chatham ME4 6QG
Received 30 Jun 2008No 1 Smithery Tinkers Alley Chatham Historic Dockyard Chatham
Received 24 Jun 2008Tesco Stores Ltd 3 Cuxton Road Strood
Received 3 Jul 2008Part Of Sites D3 & D4 Eastbridge Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent.
Received 16 Jun 2008Wildfire Building Khyber Road Brompton Barracks Gillingham Medway ME7 1UR
Received 29 May 200877 Dale Street Chatham ME4 6QG
Received 23 Jun 2008Asda Store 387 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME5 9SE
Received 6 May 2008Howlands Nursery And Land To The North Of Howlands Nursery Christmas Street Gillingham
Received 20 May 2008Howlands Nursery And Land To The North Of Howlands Nursery Christmas Street Gillingham
Received 13 May 2008Land Rear Of 94-106 Maidstone Road Chatham Kent ME4 6DG
Received 18 Jun 200817 High Street Upnor Rochester Kent.
Received 9 Jun 2008Records 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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