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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2,730 approved · 4,870 refused · 1,632 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Hazlemere Drive Gillingham Kent ME7 2TD
Received 18 Nov 2009144 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester Kent
Received 17 Nov 200924 Graveney Close Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8LB
Received 19 Nov 2009Rear Of 66 Eastcourt Lane Gillingham Kent
Received 19 Nov 2009Front Gardens Of 175-177 Princes Avenue Walderslade Chatham
Received 19 Nov 20091 & 2 Spekes Bottom Star Lane Darland Gillingham ME7 3NN
Received 19 Nov 2009Phases 1A 2 & 3 Land East Of Bells Lane Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 19 Nov 200915 The Close Rochester ME1 1SD
Received 19 Nov 2009100 Featherby Road Gillingham ME8 6AW
Received 6 Nov 200936 Salisbury Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 0BH
Received 18 Nov 200937 New Road Rochester ME1 1DX
Received 18 Nov 2009Land Adjacent To 20 Wallace Road Rochester
Received 18 Nov 2009Land To North West Corner Mill Farm Ratcliffe Highway Hoo St. Werburgh Rochester Kent
Received 16 Nov 2009Chatham Register Office 114 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DJ
Received 18 Nov 200935 Bedgebury Close Rochester ME1 2UT
Received 19 Nov 20092 Jackson Avenue Rochester Kent ME1 2SU
Received 17 Nov 200919 Laura Place Borstal Rochester ME1 3JX
Received 11 Nov 200914 Manor Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5AW
Received 17 Nov 200934 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7LZ
Received 17 Nov 2009Kingfisher Primary School Kingfisher Drive Princes Park Walderslade Chatham Kent ME5 7NX
Received 17 Nov 2009St James Ce Voluntary Aided Primary School High Street Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0BS
Received 16 Nov 2009124A High Street Gillingham ME7 1AS
Received 16 Nov 200972 Kingsway Darland Gillingham ME7 3AU
Received 16 Nov 2009The Depot Ratcliffe Highway Hoo ME3 8QB
Received 16 Nov 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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