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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
1,457 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
50 Tanker Hill Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EU
Received 28 Oct 2008Jagga House Second Avenue Industrial Estate 14-16 Second Avenue Chatham Kent ME4 5AU
Received 9 Dec 2008Woodlands Primary School Woodlands Road Gillingham Medway ME7 2DU
Received 12 Jan 20095 Cadnam Close Strood Rochester ME2 3TS
Received 13 Jan 2009Halling Service Station 1 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BW
Received 7 Jan 200920 Cambridge Road Strood Rochester ME2 3HW
Received 13 Jan 200919A Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2RJ
Received 13 Jan 200959 Tunbury Avenue Walderslade Chatham ME5 9EJ
Received 8 Jan 200947 Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LA
Received 17 Dec 2008Asda Stores Limited 387 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME5 9SE
Received 12 Dec 2008199 Wilson Avenue Rochester ME1 2SN
Received 19 Nov 200843 King George Road Chatham ME5 0PL
Received 9 Jan 2009124 Maidstone Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DS
Received 5 Jan 200934 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TU
Received 13 Jan 2009176 Wigmore Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TJ
Received 7 Jan 200942 Tadburn Green Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PS
Received 9 Dec 2008Unit 7 Ambley Green Gillingham Business Park Gillingham ME8 0NJ
Received 6 Dec 2008Eastborough Bungalow Cooling Road Rochester Kent
Received 29 May 200849 Peverel Green Parkwood Gillingham ME8 9UH
Received 10 Dec 2008Units 1 & 1A Global House Priory Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2EG
Received 23 Dec 200839 First Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LH
Received 11 Dec 2008Former Ancaster Garage Site Station Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 4BD
Received 2 Dec 200820 Columbine Road Strood Rochester ME2 2YA
Received 18 Dec 200821 Bright Road Luton Chatham ME4 5HH
Received 19 Dec 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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