Understanding planning · 13 min read
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2,730 approved · 4,905 refused · 1,644 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
83-87 Cuxton Road Strood Rochester
Received 15 Apr 200984 Duchess Of Kent Drive Lordswood Chatham
Received 17 Apr 2009Land At Lower Lines Bounded By Medway Road Cumberland Road Johnson Avenue And Princess Mary Avenue Gillingham Kent
Received 9 Apr 2009Berry Court Woods Lodge Hill Lane Chattenden Kent
Received 23 Jan 2009Court Farm Pilgrims Road Upper Halling
Received 14 Apr 2009Former Akzo Chemicals Ltd Pier Road Gillingham ME7 1RL
Received 8 Apr 2009Land Adjoining North Dane Wood North Dane Way Chatham Kent
Received 14 Apr 2009The Old Rectory Rectory Road Cliffe Rochester Kent ME3 7RP
Received 9 Apr 2009Phase 1 Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Northern Side Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 7 Apr 2009Lower Lines Site Prince Arthur Road / Medway Road Gillingham Kent
Received 7 Apr 2009National Grid Grain LNG Ltd LNG Site Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 25 Mar 2009Land Fronting Commercial Road Car Park Tolgate Lane Strood
Received 8 Apr 2009Land Between Vanguard Way (A289) And George Summers Close And East Of Anthonys Way Medway City Estate Frindsbury Rochester Kent
Received 2 Apr 2009Kings School Yard The Precinct Rochester Kent
Received 1 Apr 2009Churchlands Palmerston Road Chatham ME4 6LU
Received 1 Apr 2009Wharf Farm House Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester
Received 1 Apr 2009National Grid Grain LNG Isle Of Grain Rochester
Received 24 Nov 2008Grain LNG Ltd Storage Site And Second Site Property Holdings Ltd Site Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 9 Mar 2009Grain LNG Ltd Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent ME3 0AB
Received 9 Mar 2009National Grid Grain LNG Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 9 Mar 2009Oast House Spendiff Cooling Rochester
Received 30 Mar 200942-44 Stuart Road Gillingham
Received 2 Mar 2009Black Lion Leisure Centre Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HL
Received 17 Mar 2009Unit 5 Stirling Park Laker Road Rochester Medway ME1 3QR
Received 26 Mar 2009Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage