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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2,730 approved · 4,891 refused · 1,641 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
62A Robin Hood Lane Chatham ME5 9LD
Received 5 Oct 20098 Livingstone Circus Gillingham Kent ME7 4HA
Received 25 Jun 200966 Binland Grove Horsted Chatham ME5 9UT
Received 5 Oct 200940 Grafton Avenue Rochester ME1 2RP
Received 29 Sept 2009Mimosa House Dart Close Strood Rochester ME2 2HE
Received 29 Sept 200994-100 Trafalgar Street Gillingham Kent. ME7 4RN
Received 2 Oct 2009Land At Courteney Road (Former Astra Site) Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 0RX
Received 2 Oct 200932 Bramley Rise Strood Rochester ME2 3SU
Received 30 Sept 2009Unit 1 The Joiners Buckingham Road And Land At Rear Of 57 Windsor Road Gillingham Kent ME7 4QL
Received 8 Sept 2009Halling Primary School Howlsmere Close Halling Rochester ME2 1ER
Received 22 Jun 2009Frindsbury Lawn Tennis Club Frogs Island Upnor Road Rochester Kent ME2 4UX
Received 2 Oct 200927 Holding Street Rainham Gillingham Kent ME8 7JP
Received 2 Oct 200912 Horsted Way Horsted Rochester ME1 2XY
Received 2 Oct 2009Chatham Town Football Club Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6LR
Received 2 Oct 2009Land Adjacent To 94B Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester Kent ME3 8AR
Received 27 Aug 2009J4 Leviathon Way Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4LL
Received 1 Oct 2009131 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BT
Received 7 Sept 200944 Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8JJ
Received 1 Oct 200937 Rycaut Close Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9UT
Received 28 Sept 200952 Greenbank Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SG
Received 3 Sept 2009St Marys Medical Centre Vicarage Road Strood Rochester ME2 4DG
Received 23 Sept 200978 Watling Street Gillingham ME7 2YW
Received 1 Oct 2009The Howard School Derwent Way Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BX
Received 1 Oct 2009St William Of Perth RC Primary School Canon Close Rochester ME1 3EN
Received 1 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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