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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2,730 approved · 4,880 refused · 1,636 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent 1 Cressey Court Chatham ME4 6TW
Received 29 Oct 200971 Victoria Road Luton Chatham ME4 5EU
Received 28 Oct 200919 Bedgebury Close Rochester ME1 2UT
Received 28 Oct 2009164 High Street Rochester ME1 1EX
Received 28 Oct 2009Mockbeggar Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8EU
Received 26 Oct 2009Land Rear Of 156 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SX
Received 28 Oct 200926 Reginald Avenue Cuxton Rochester ME2 1DZ
Received 16 Nov 2009770 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0LR
Received 18 Nov 2009Unit 34 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Gillingham ME4 3ED
Received 18 Nov 2009Somerfield Store Anthonys Way Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DW
Received 3 Nov 2009St Margarets Church Cooling Road High Halstow Rochester ME3 8SA
Received 23 Oct 2009Holiday Inn Maidstone Road Horsted Chatham ME5 9SF
Received 28 Oct 20096 Nine Acres Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EL
Received 27 Oct 200991 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RH
Received 27 Oct 2009Unit 6 Ballard Business Park Cuxton Road Rochester Kent ME2 2NY
Received 27 Oct 200926 Cobblestones Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3NT
Received 23 Oct 2009Unit C Compass Centre Pembroke Chatham Maritime Chatham ME4 4YH
Received 26 Oct 2009Armour Plate Shop Main Gate Road Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ
Received 22 Oct 20092 Iona Close Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UY
Received 26 Oct 2009Land Off St. Johns Road Rear Of Cowper Road And Rear Of Canterbury Street Gillingham
Received 26 Oct 200947A High Street Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HS
Received 26 Oct 2009164 High Street Rochester ME1 1EX
Received 23 Oct 2009111 Bells Lane Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9HY
Received 27 Oct 2009St. Mary's Island Chatham Maritime Kent
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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