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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2,096 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31-39 Duncan Road Gillingham
Received 7 Oct 2008Rear Of Coronation Flats Jenkins Dale And Fronting Chalkpit Hill Chatham
Received 1 Oct 2008Rochester Grammar School For Girls Maidstone Road Rochester
Received 2 Oct 200852 Station Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7RX
Received 9 May 2008Methodist Church Site Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh
Received 1 May 2008249 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NJ
Received 31 Jul 200924 Hinton Crescent Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RL
Received 10 Sept 200957 Rolvenden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PF
Received 8 Sept 2009Carpetright Horsted Retail Park Maidstone Road Chatham Kent
Received 7 Sept 200925 The Shades Strood Rochester ME2 2UD
Received 8 Sept 2009Gillingham Medical Centre Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BU
Received 24 Aug 2009323 Dale Street Chatham ME4 6QR
Received 15 Jun 200952 Georgian Way Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QZ
Received 3 Jul 2009Land To The Rear Of 18 To 22 Oakum Court Shipwrights Avenue And 30 To 42 Clarence Road Chatham ME4 5JL
Received 14 Aug 20096-17 Oakum Court And Rear Gardens Of 69 & 71 Joiners Court Chatham Kent ME4 5JL
Received 14 Aug 2009Land Between 243 & 245 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5JB
Received 20 Aug 2009Land Rear Of 42-48 Rochester Road Halling Rochester ME2 1AH
Received 27 Aug 20099 New Road Avenue Chatham ME4 6BB
Received 5 Aug 2009Part Ground Floor Block T Pier Road Gillingham Kent ME7 1RD
Received 7 Sept 2009Ratcliffe Highway (A228) At Junction With Fenn Street St. Mary Hoo Rochester Kent
Received 20 Aug 200913 Leafy Glade Hempstead Gillingham ME8 0PJ
Received 16 Jul 2009Land Between Wainscott Road And Frittenden Road Opposite 37 38 Frittenden Road And 157 159 And 161A Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 14 Aug 200952 Christmas Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SN
Received 3 Jul 2009Bridgeside Warwick Crescent Rochester ME1 3LE
Received 30 Apr 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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