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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2,730 approved · 4,905 refused · 1,644 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Limetree Close Chatham Kent ME5 0DR
Received 17 Sept 200980 Twydall Lane Twydall Gillingham ME8 6JF
Received 4 Sept 2009194-198 High Street Chatham ME4 4AY
Received 10 Sept 2009Land At Lower Lines Bounded By Medway Road Cumberland Road Johnson Avenue And Princess Mary Avenue Gillingham Kent
Received 7 Sept 200961 Main Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Kent ME3 9AA
Received 7 Aug 2009The Cottage Eastcourt Farm Eastcourt Lane Gillingham
Received 28 Aug 200923 Frittenden Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4JU
Received 17 Aug 2009Land At: Former Oil Refinery East Of Grain Power Station Grain Road; Port Victoria Road; And Adjacent To And Including Foreshore East Of Grain Village Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 21 Aug 2009506 City Way Rochester ME1 2TW
Received 17 Aug 2009Block T Victory Pier Pier Road Gillingham Kent. ME7 1RL
Received 11 Aug 2009Dux Court Barn Dux Court Road High Halstow Rochester Kent ME3 8RZ
Received 11 Aug 2009Unit 15 Valentine Close Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Kent ME8 0RW
Received 4 Aug 2009Land At: Former Oil Refinery East Of Grain Power Station Grain Road; Port Victoria Road; And Adjacent To And Including Foreshore East Of Grain Village Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 3 Aug 2009Diggerland Martin Earl Work Pit 1 Cuxton Road Cuxton Rochester
Received 22 Jul 200939 Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham ME5 9NR
Received 29 Jul 2009Land Adjacent To 6 Union Street Rochester
Received 28 Jul 2009Land At: Former Oil Refinery East Of Grain Power Station Grain Road; Port Victoria Road; And Adjacent To And Including Foreshore East Of Grain Village Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent
Received 28 Jul 2009Unit 15 Valentine Close Gillingham Business Park Gillingham
Received 8 Jun 20095 St Marys Road Strood
Received 23 Jul 2009249 Wilson Avenue Rochester
Received 23 Jul 2009Land At The Alps Borstal Road Rochester
Received 15 Jul 2009Lower Lines Site Prince Arthur Road / Medway Road Gillingham
Received 17 Jul 20093 Martin Court Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3SD
Received 3 Jul 200914 Montgomery Avenue Chatham ME5 0HA
Received 20 Jul 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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