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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2,730 approved · 4,849 refused · 1,626 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adj 183 High Street Halling Kent ME2 1BT
Received 2 Feb 201081 Tufton Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7LD
Received 1 Feb 20101 Brownhill Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NN
Received 2 Feb 2010251 Canterbury Street Gillingham Kent ME7 5XE
Received 2 Feb 2010Land Rear Of 128 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 27 Jan 201012 Wentworth Drive Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UL
Received 14 Dec 200915 Melody Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0NH
Received 9 Feb 2010606 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0JY
Received 3 Feb 201028 Roebuck Road Rochester ME1 1UE
Received 25 Jan 201043-49 Wood Street And 9-11 Manor Street Brompton Gillingham Kent
Received 25 Jan 2010164 High Street Rochester ME1 1EX
Received 1 Feb 201060 Bloors Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7DU
Received 30 Jan 20107 Betteridge Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9GY
Received 29 Jan 2010351 Capstone Road Gillingham ME7 3JE
Received 29 Jan 2010St William Of Perth RC Primary School Canon Close Rochester ME1 3EN
Received 28 Jan 2010Land Adjacent To 62 Clandon Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8YB
Received 29 Jan 2010327 Churchill Avenue Wayfield Chatham ME5 0LA
Received 29 Jan 2010Unit A Horsted Retail Park Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9SQ
Received 29 Jan 2010163 Allington Drive Strood Rochester ME2 3TD
Received 29 Jan 20102 Wimbourne Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EN
Received 21 Jan 2010Bridge Lodge Four Elms Hill Chattenden Rochester ME3 8NH
Received 29 Jan 2010Gillingham Railway Station Railway Street Gillingham ME7 1XE
Received 18 Jan 2010Somerfield Store Anthonys Way Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DW
Received 29 Jan 20101 Minor Canon Row Rochester ME1 1ST
Received 28 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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