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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2,730 approved · 4,896 refused · 1,642 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 Northcote Road Strood Rochester ME2 2DH
Received 18 Sept 2009Land Adjacent To Ash House Wollaston Close Gillingham Kent
Received 18 Sept 2009The Robert Napier School Third Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LX
Received 25 Aug 2009188 Beechings Way Gillingham Kent ME8 6TG
Received 7 Aug 2009157 High Street Chatham ME4 4BA
Received 16 Sept 2009Royal School Of Military Engineering Brompton Barracks Dock Road Chatham ME4 4UG
Received 7 Sept 2009The Dame Sybil Thorndike Medical Care Centre Longley Road Rochester Kent ME1 2TH
Received 19 Aug 200937 Chalky Bank Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7NP
Received 24 Sept 200924 Broadlands Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8HJ
Received 24 Sept 2009128 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 24 Aug 200937 London Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RG
Received 24 Sept 20098 Cobham Close Strood Rochester ME2 3JS
Received 24 Sept 200937 Brendon Avenue Walderslade Chataham Kent ME5 8JG
Received 17 Sept 200924 Ewart Road Chatham ME4 6LB
Received 17 Sept 20093 Canal Road Strood Rochester ME2 4DR
Received 5 Jun 200919 Port Rise Chatham ME4 6QA
Received 16 Sept 200992 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HP
Received 7 Sept 2009168 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6EN
Received 14 Aug 200936 Milton Road Gillingham ME7 5LN
Received 31 Jul 2009Gun Wharf Dock Road Chatham ME4 4TR
Received 21 Sept 200915 Pilgrims Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1HN
Received 6 Aug 200923 Langdale Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 7AE
Received 23 Sept 200930 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0LT
Received 18 Sept 2009Land To Rear Of 103 Harrow Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QB
Received 23 Sept 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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