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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2,730 approved · 4,891 refused · 1,641 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Rainham Shopping Centre Rainham Gillingham ME8 7HW
Received 26 Oct 2009Unit 14-16 Featherby House Beechings Way Twydall Gillingham ME8 6PR
Received 26 Oct 2009Land Adjacent To 37 Dagmar Road Luton Chatham Kent ME4 5HB
Received 26 Oct 200926 Cobblestones Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3NT
Received 23 Oct 2009Mockbeggar Farm Town Road Cliffe Woods ME3 8EU
Received 23 Oct 2009202 Watling Street Strood Rochester ME2 3QL
Received 23 Oct 200927 Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Gillingham Kent
Received 24 Aug 2009Land At Whitewall Road Medway City Estate Strood Rochester Kent
Received 22 Oct 200927 Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre Hempstead Gillingham Kernt
Received 24 Aug 2009Plot 20 Knights Road Strood Kent
Received 19 Oct 20091 Flint Green Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PE
Received 21 Oct 200963 Franklin Road Gillingham ME7 4DG
Received 20 Oct 2009Land Adjacent 64 Broom Hill Road Strood Rochester ME2 3LF
Received 21 Oct 2009City Wall Wine Bar 120 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1JT
Received 21 Oct 200924 Brindle Way Lordswood Chatham ME5 8UA
Received 21 Oct 2009140 Cedar Road Strood Rochester ME2 2LJ
Received 21 Oct 2009City Wall Wine Bar 120 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1JT
Received 21 Oct 2009166 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QX
Received 21 Oct 2009H.M.P Cookham Wood Sir Evelyn Road Rochester Kent ME1 3LU
Received 20 Oct 200996 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AN
Received 20 Oct 200911 Browndens Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1JH
Received 21 Oct 2009139 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7UJ
Received 21 Oct 2009139 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham ME8 7UJ
Received 21 Oct 2009156 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6EN
Received 20 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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