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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2,730 approved · 4,891 refused · 1,641 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AN
Received 13 Oct 2009Deangate Ridge Golf & Sports Complex Dux Court Road Hoo ME3 8RZ
Received 13 Oct 20094 Chatsworth Drive Strood Rochester ME2 4RH
Received 5 Aug 2009Land To The North Of The Brook And Land To The East Of Union Street Junction Chatham
Received 13 Oct 200925 Church Street Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AH
Received 12 Oct 200948 Lakewood Drive Wigmore Gillingham Kent ME8 0NS
Received 12 Oct 2009Land Between The Mount & 136 Broom Hill Road Rochester Kent ME2 3LQ
Received 12 Oct 2009Land To Rear Of No. 1 And 3 Moor Street (Opposite 1 Otterham Quay Lane) Rainham Gillingham Kent
Received 12 Oct 200989 Brambletree Crescent Borstal Rochester ME1 3LQ
Received 12 Oct 200968 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LG
Received 7 Sept 200920 Marley Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DH
Received 8 Oct 2009170 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HB
Received 8 Oct 200923 Dotterel Close Lordswood Chatham Kent ME5 8NA
Received 9 Oct 200925 Herbert Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 9BY
Received 9 Oct 2009The Oasis Academy Skinner Street Gillingham Medway ME7 1LG
Received 8 Oct 2009Land At 2 Fleet Road Rochester ME1 2QA
Received 8 Oct 2009162 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AJ
Received 7 Sept 2009Land Adjoining Kings Langley Matts Hill Road Rainham Gillingham Sittingbourne ME9 7XA
Received 8 Oct 200916 Archbishops Crescent Gillingham ME7 2WL
Received 8 Oct 200947 & 49 Watson Avenue Horsted Chatham ME5 9SJ
Received 2 Sept 200912 Gillingham Green Gillingham ME7 1SS
Received 7 Oct 200912 Gillingham Green Gillingham ME7 1SS
Received 7 Oct 2009Rock Avenue Working Men's Club 2 Rock Avenue Gillingham ME7 5NP
Received 8 Oct 200917 Water Meadow Close Hempstead Kent ME7 3QF
Received 7 Oct 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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