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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2,730 approved · 4,905 refused · 1,644 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site Adjacent 29 Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester
Received 8 May 2009141 High Street Rochester Kent
Received 15 May 2009Medway Manor Hotel 14-17 New Road Rochester
Received 15 May 2009204-216 Eastcourt Lane Twydall Gillingham
Received 13 May 2009Kings School Yard The Precinct Rochester
Received 13 May 2009Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Both Sides Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester
Received 14 May 2009Wainscott Training Estate Comprising Land North Of Plant Branch Islingham Farm Road ME3 8BD
Received 15 May 2009278 Maidstone Road Chatham
Received 2 Mar 2009Former Astra Site Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham
Received 20 Apr 2009Total Wigmore 400 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham
Received 11 May 2009Land At Grange Farm Grange Road Gillingham
Received 5 May 2009Site Adjacent 29 Stoke Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9BE
Received 5 Feb 2009323-325 Maidstone Road Rochester
Received 6 May 2009233 Bredhurst Road Wigmore
Received 1 May 2009Rsme Upper Upnor Upchat Road Upnor
Received 17 Apr 2009Royal School Of Military Engineers Upper Upnor Depot Upchat Road Upnor Rochester Kent
Received 17 Apr 2009Wainscott Training Estate Comprising Land North Of Plant Branch Islingham Farm Road ME3 8BD
Received 16 Apr 2009National Grid Grain LNG Ltd LNG Storage Site Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 24 Apr 2009National Grid Grain LNG Ltd LNG Site Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 27 Apr 2009Land At Commissioners Road (Opposite Phoenix Industrial Estate) Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4HZ
Received 29 Apr 2009Parkwood Pre-School Deanwood Drive Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9LP
Received 30 Mar 2009Generator House Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham
Received 16 Apr 2009Wayside Meresborough Lane Rainham
Received 17 Apr 200932 Woodlands Road Gillingham
Received 17 Apr 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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