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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2,730 approved · 4,905 refused · 1,644 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Kemp Close Chatham ME5 9SP
Received 15 Jul 2009Former Akzo Chemical Works Site Pier Road Gillingham
Received 3 Jul 200990 Edwin Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AE
Received 15 Jul 2009Livingstone Arms 239 Gillingham Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4RB
Received 2 Jul 2009Adjacent To 2 Borstal Street Rochester ME1 3HL
Received 10 Jul 2009Former Astra Building Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0RX
Received 9 Jul 2009Laurel Mortimers Avenue Cliffe Rochester ME3 8JT
Received 1 Jun 20094 Elms Accident And Repair Centre Main Road Chattenden Rochester
Received 6 Jul 2009289 Barnsole Road Gillingham ME7 4JD
Received 19 Jun 200922 Harold Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1EE
Received 26 Jun 2009Land Adjacent To 37 Longley Road Rochester
Received 29 Jun 2009206 High Street Rochester ME1 1JA
Received 11 Jun 2009Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 23 Jun 200919 Laura Place Rochester ME1 3JX
Received 18 Jun 2009Balmoral Gardens Car Park Balmoral Gardens Gillingham Medway ME7 4PG
Received 18 Jun 200944-46 High Street Chatham
Received 22 May 2009129 Berengrave Lane Gillingham Kent ME8 7UJ
Received 26 May 2009136 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DX
Received 27 May 2009100 High Street Rochester ME1 1JT
Received 12 Jun 2009Land To Front Of Greenacre School 157 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0NB
Received 10 Jun 2009Former Astra Site Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0RX
Received 6 May 2009White House Barn Chapel Road Isle Of Grain Rochester
Received 29 May 2009Decoy Farm Decoy Hill Road High Halstow Rochester
Received 28 May 200964-66 High Street Chatham
Received 19 May 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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