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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2,096 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sheridale Business Centre Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2EL
Received 9 Jun 2008Land At Buckhole Farm Cooling Road High Halstow
Received 10 Jun 2008Wainscott Training Estate Comprising Land North Of Plant Branch Islingham Farm Road ME3 8BD
Received 16 Jun 2008Cuxton Pit No 3 Cuxton Road Strood
Received 2 Jun 2008Ye Old Stables Barn End Chattenden Farm Lodge Hill Lane Chattenden
Received 12 Jun 2008Binga-Low Buttway Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QP
Received 7 May 2008171 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1SF
Received 5 Jun 20082 Otway Street Chatham Kent.
Received 15 May 2008H M P Rochester Kent ME1 3LU
Received 13 May 200890 Luton Road Luton Chatham ME4 5AB
Received 29 May 2008National Grid Property Holdings Site Grain Road Isle Of Grain
Received 19 May 200816 Pips View Cooling Road Cooling Rochester Kent.
Received 29 May 2008233 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JL
Received 22 May 2008105 Grange Road Gillingham ME7 2RJ
Received 22 May 200882 Medway Road Gillingham ME7 1NJ
Received 22 May 20081 Seaton Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4BH
Received 13 May 2008Lower Lines Site Prince Arthur Road/Medway Road Gillingham Kent.
Received 19 May 200854 Broadwood Road Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LX
Received 16 May 200815 King Edward Road Rochester ME1 1UB
Received 1 May 2008St. Mary's Island Chatham Maritime Kent
Received 3 Feb 200925 Pepys Way Strood
Received 12 Feb 2009Land At Lower Lines Bounded By Medway Road Cumberland Road Johnson Avenue And Princess Mary Avenue Gillingham Kent
Received 15 Jan 200949 Gardiner Street Gillingham ME7 1DW
Received 23 Feb 2009Land Adj 2 Slatin Road Strood
Received 8 Oct 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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