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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2,730 approved · 4,891 refused · 1,641 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
34 Bournville Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 6LR
Received 7 Oct 2009125 Boundary Road Chatham Kent ME4 6UW
Received 7 Oct 20093 Parkfields Strood Rochester ME2 2TD
Received 8 Oct 2009Unit 1 Dajen Business Park Second Avenue Luton Chatham ME4 5AU
Received 7 Oct 2009219 Ballens Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PH
Received 7 Oct 2009Cooling Castle Main Road Cooling Rochester ME3 8DT
Received 6 Oct 2009Cliffe Pools Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 3 Aug 20091 Weavering Close Strood Rochester ME2 4RQ
Received 2 Oct 20094 Chatham Hill Luton Chatham ME5 7AA
Received 8 Sept 2009102 View Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8UH
Received 6 Oct 2009Burnt Oak Primary School (Formerly Known As Richmond Infant School And Arden Junior School) Cornwall Road Gillingham
Received 2 Oct 200931 Sunnymead Avenue Gillingham ME7 2DY
Received 2 Oct 20098 Hook Close Horsted Chatham ME5 9TP
Received 6 Oct 2009754 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0LR
Received 2 Oct 2009Land Rear Of 56 King George Road Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 0TT
Received 6 Oct 2009Brett Aggregates Salt Lane Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7SZ
Received 5 Oct 2009Unit J Altbarn Close Revenge Road Lordswood Industrial Estate Chatham Kent ME5 8UD
Received 5 Aug 200919 Allen Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8LS
Received 25 Aug 20097 Manor Court Lower Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME7 2UX
Received 5 Oct 20095 Westergate Road Strood Rochester ME2 3RZ
Received 5 Oct 2009Land East Of London/Dover Railway Line Between The Railway Bridge Crossing The Medway And Doust Way Excluding 7-28 Castle View Business Park Acorn Shipyard And The PB Group Premises And Partly Fronting Corporation Street Rochester
Received 19 Sept 2009Liberty Quay Blake Avenue Gillingham ME7 1FL
Received 14 Sept 2009151 High Street Rochester ME1 1EL
Received 5 Oct 2009151 High Street Rochester ME1 1EL
Received 5 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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