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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2,730 approved · 4,849 refused · 1,626 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
162 Rede Court Road Strood Rochester ME2 3TU
Received 19 Feb 2010189 Rock Avenue Gillingham ME7 5PN
Received 7 Jun 2009Plot 3 Merryboys Stables Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 7TP
Received 19 Feb 2010100 Pattens Lane Rochester ME1 2RA
Received 19 Feb 20101 Pine Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QR
Received 19 Feb 201037 Herbert Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BY
Received 19 Feb 20109 Tanglewood Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0PH
Received 18 Feb 2010402 City Way Rochester ME1 2BQ
Received 17 Feb 2010114 Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JU
Received 17 Feb 2010144A Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QE
Received 17 Feb 2010Upper Bush Farm Upper Bush Road Cuxton Rochester Kent ME2 1HF
Received 15 Feb 201028 Pankhurst Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DF
Received 17 Feb 2010Ranscombe Farm Sundridge Hill Cuxton Rochester ME2 1LA
Received 16 Feb 2010Avicenna Cottage Spekes Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RT
Received 18 Feb 2010Merryboys House Merryboys Road Cliffe Woods Rochester. ME3 7TJ
Received 17 Feb 201012 Beatty Road Rochester ME1 2TG
Received 17 Feb 201026 Cobblestones Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3NT
Received 17 Feb 2010Compass Centre Pembroke Chatham Maritime Gillingham Kent ME4 4YH
Received 17 Feb 2010Stoke Stores/Stoke Supplies High Street Lower Stoke Rochester Kent ME3 9RA
Received 16 Feb 201026 Century Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BG
Received 16 Feb 20107 Minor Canon Row Rochester ME1 1ST
Received 16 Feb 20107 Minor Canon Row Rochester ME1 1ST
Received 16 Feb 20104 Ellison Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PL
Received 16 Feb 2010Land Rear Of 172-176 Maidstone Road And Adjacent To Randall Court Randall Road Chatham Kent
Received 16 Feb 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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