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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2,730 approved · 4,913 refused · 1,646 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Pilgrim School Warwick Crescent Borstal Rochester
Received 15 Sept 2008Land Adj Walmer House Cypress Court Cypress Road Frindsburh Rochester
Received 16 Oct 2008Medway Microlites Burrow Lane Stoke
Received 21 Oct 2008Sites J5 & J6 Chatham Maritime Chatham
Received 9 Oct 2008Sherlodge Garages Ltd 26 Hoath Lane Rainham
Received 13 Oct 2008106 Palmerston Road Chatham ME4 5SJ
Received 13 Oct 200814 City Way Rochester ME1 2AB
Received 30 Sept 200833 London Road Strood Rochester ME2 3JB
Received 13 Oct 2008Land At Street End Road Chatham
Received 8 Oct 200830 Scotby Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 8ER
Received 30 Sept 2008Unit 22 Gillingham Business Park Bailey Drive Gillingham
Received 26 Sept 2008Newlands Farm Station Road Cliffe Rochester
Received 12 Aug 2008B & Q Plc Will Adams Way Gillingham
Received 10 Sept 2008Eastmoor House Moor Street Rainham Gillingham
Received 18 Sept 200811 St Werburgh Crescent Hoo St Werburgh Rochester
Received 1 Sept 2008Land To The South Of Stoke Road Hoo
Received 16 Sept 2008Land Rear Of 42-48 Rochester Road Halling
Received 12 Sept 2008Land Between 8 Meadow Close & 1 Reservoir Cottage Barn Meadow Upper Halling
Received 12 Sept 2008Land Adjacent To Bells Lane And Kingsnorth Close Hoo
Received 12 Sept 2008Field Adj To Satis House Cooling Street Cliffe
Received 28 Aug 2008Shalom 15A Higham Road Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 3 Sept 2008Landa Adjacent To 37 Longley Road Rochester
Received 5 Sept 2008Land Adjoining Rose & Crown 26 Stoke Road Allhallows Rochester
Received 5 Sept 20085 St Mary's Road Strood
Received 5 Sept 2008Records 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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