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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2,730 approved · 4,860 refused · 1,631 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ship And Trades Maritime Way St Marys Island Chatham Kent ME4 3ER
Received 11 Jan 20109 The Oast Stratford Lane Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 8AG
Received 13 Jan 2010167 Wakeley Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8NJ
Received 13 Jan 2010319 Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SE
Received 12 Jan 20107 Ashley Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 6TT
Received 13 Jan 2010139 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AQ
Received 13 Jan 2010754 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0LR
Received 13 Jan 201037 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PL
Received 13 Jan 2010Turners Car Sales Basement Of 103-105 High Street Chatham ME4 4DH
Received 13 Jan 2010139 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EY
Received 13 Jan 2010Land Adjacent To 61 Cooling Road & 5-9 Grasmere Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4RS
Received 12 Jan 201084 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EZ
Received 11 Jan 2010166 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QX
Received 11 Jan 2010131 Hamelin Road Darland Gillingham ME7 3ER
Received 12 Jan 2010Land Adjoining 2 Yarrow Road Chatham Kent ME5 0SJ
Received 12 Jan 2010Cliffe Yard Anthonys Way Rochester Kent
Received 12 Jan 2010Alstom Power Systems Limited Grain CHP Project Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 12 Jan 2010Cliffe Yard Anthonys Way Rochester Kent ME2 4DY
Received 12 Jan 2010Hempstead Junior School Birch Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3HJ
Received 3 Dec 20097 Holtwood Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LD
Received 11 Jan 2010Grenville University Of Greenwich Pembroke Chatham ME4 4AW
Received 12 Jan 201039 View Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 8JQ
Received 5 Jan 2010Ship And Trades Maritime Way St Marys Island Chatham Kent ME4 3ER
Received 11 Jan 2010203 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3ES
Received 11 Jan 2010Records 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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