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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2,730 approved · 4,870 refused · 1,632 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
107 Victoria Street Gillingham ME7 1EL
Received 8 Dec 2009Cooling Castle House Main Road Cooling Rochester Kent. Mes 8DT
Received 26 Nov 2009Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DT
Received 26 Nov 200915 Christmas Lane High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SN
Received 24 Nov 2009300 City Way Rochester ME1 2BL
Received 7 Dec 200966 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2RL
Received 7 Dec 2009Wagon Lodge And Granary At Manor Farm West Street Cliffe Rochester ME3 7TH
Received 2 Dec 200939 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QX
Received 2 Dec 200965 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SH
Received 7 Dec 200918 Marquis Drive Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3DR
Received 7 Dec 20095 The Street Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HT
Received 4 Dec 20098 Twydall Green Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JY
Received 2 Dec 200925 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HN
Received 2 Dec 20096 Hawkenbury Rise Strood Rochester ME2 3SG
Received 3 Dec 2009Unit 16 Astra Park Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham Kent
Received 4 Dec 2009Land On Globe Lane And Riverside Gardens Chatham Kent
Received 4 Dec 200927 Watts Avenue Rochester ME1 1RX
Received 4 Dec 200966 Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9BL
Received 1 Dec 200999 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9BA
Received 3 Dec 200938 Thorndale Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9SW
Received 3 Dec 2009Land Between 28 & 30 & Rear Of Garages Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Kent ME7 2YD
Received 3 Dec 2009Gordon Infant School Gordon Road Strood Kent ME2 3HQ
Received 3 Dec 2009University Of Greenwich At Medway Central Avenue Chatham Maritime Gillingham
Received 3 Dec 200990 Port Rise Chatham ME4 6QA
Received 2 Dec 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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