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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2,730 approved · 4,849 refused · 1,626 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
65 Laburnum Road Strood Rochester ME2 2LA
Received 8 Feb 2010Rear Of 520-522 City Way Rochester Kent. ME1 2TW
Received 2 Feb 201050 Abbey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QB
Received 29 Jan 2010Land Rear Of 21 & 27 London Road (Fronting Roberts Road) Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7RG
Received 5 Feb 201017 High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HX
Received 5 Feb 201049 Gardiner Street Gillingham ME7 1DW
Received 5 Feb 201067-67A Ordnance Street Chatham ME4 6SH
Received 5 Feb 2010Land Adjacent To 50 Pembroke Court Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent
Received 5 Feb 201039 Birch Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RB
Received 3 Feb 201044 Delce Road Rochester ME1 2DG
Received 5 Feb 201026 Sharfleet Drive Strood Rochester ME2 2UA
Received 4 Feb 2010Land Fronting 51-58 Hickory Dell Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME7 3SL
Received 5 Feb 20101 Willowbank Drive High Halstow Rochester ME3 8TN
Received 5 Feb 2010Unit 7-8 Ambley Green Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0NJ
Received 5 Feb 20106 St Matthews Way Allhallows Rochester ME3 9SH
Received 5 Feb 201063 Selbourne Road Gillingham ME7 1QN
Received 4 Feb 2010148 High Street Chatham ME4 4DB
Received 3 Feb 201031 York Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9ER
Received 4 Feb 2010158 Magpie Hall Road Chatham ME4 5XJ
Received 2 Feb 2010124A High Street Gillingham ME7 1AS
Received 4 Feb 201023-25 High Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5AA
Received 4 Feb 2010Land Adjacent To 1A Black Rock Gardens Hempstead Gillingham Kent
Received 3 Feb 201028 Holmside Gillingham ME7 4BD
Received 3 Feb 2010148 High Street Chatham ME4 4DB
Received 3 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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