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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
1,337 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
35 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RF
Received 29 Dec 20088 Millfordhope Road Strood Rochester ME2 2TE
Received 11 Dec 200832 Cheldoc Rise St Marys Island Gillingham ME4 3NR
Received 19 Dec 200847 Tern Crescent Strood Rochester ME2 2RG
Received 22 Dec 2008280 Station Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7PT
Received 11 Sept 2008172-178 Avery Way Allhallows Rochester ME3 9QJ
Received 7 Jan 200941 Glenwood Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RP
Received 9 Dec 200896 Borstal Road Rochester ME1 3BD
Received 19 Dec 200881 The Spires Strood Rochester ME2 2PY
Received 6 Jan 2009Land Adjacent To Walmer House Cypress Court Wainscott Rochester ME2 4PZ
Received 12 Dec 200819 Gainsborough Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EG
Received 23 Dec 200834 St Margarets Street Rochester ME1 1TU
Received 7 Jan 2009Allhallows Holiday Park Avery Way Allhallows Rochester Kent
Received 19 Dec 200848 High Street Strood Rochester ME2 4AR
Received 21 Nov 2008107 Saunders Street Gillingham ME7 1HY
Received 18 Nov 200812 Sharfleet Drive Strood Rochester ME2 2UA
Received 30 Dec 20088 Longley Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RT
Received 30 Dec 2008Unit 16 Morgans Timber Yard Knight Road Strood Rochester ME2 2BA
Received 23 Dec 2008Chatham Register Office 114 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DJ
Received 13 Nov 20084-4-2 Sports And Social Club (Former Lloyds Sports & Social Club) Featherby Road Gillingham Kent ME8 6AN
Received 18 Dec 2008189 Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 1SF
Received 30 Dec 2008Queen Mother Court Borstal Road Rochester Kent ME1 3JF
Received 27 Oct 2008Liberty Park Phase 1 Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (North Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 12 Dec 200832 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BQ
Received 26 Nov 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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