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
1,337 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
74A Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham Kent
Received 17 Feb 20096 Jubilee Terrace Gillingham ME7 1JT
Received 25 Feb 200925 Oxford Road Gillingham ME7 4BW
Received 25 Feb 2009Copperfield Recreation Ground Copperfield/ Breton Road Rochester Medway ME1 2JE
Received 5 Feb 20091A Victoria Street Gillingham ME7 1ED
Received 7 Jan 2009152 Brompton Lane Strood Rochester ME2 3BA
Received 28 Oct 200827 Solomon Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8EB
Received 26 Jan 2009Spice Valley 93 Watling Street Gillingham Medway ME7 2YX
Received 2 Feb 2009Park Lodge 362 Canterbury Street Gillingham Medway ME7 5JU
Received 23 Jan 2009Co-Op Store Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham Kent ME5 9LL
Received 6 Feb 20091ST Floor Neighbourhood Centre Morrisons Complex Princes Avenue Chatham Kent ME5 7PQ
Received 9 Feb 2009School Cottages 17 Vicarage Road Upper Halling Rochester ME2 1BG
Received 8 Dec 2008136 Maidstone Road Chatham ME4 6DX
Received 20 Jan 2009204 Damson Drive Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9TH
Received 21 Jan 200983 Kingswood Road Gillingham ME7 1DX
Received 29 Jan 2009St Thomas Of Canterbury RC Primary School Romany Road Twydall Gillingham Medway ME8 6JH
Received 8 Dec 2008Chattenden Barracks Chattenden Rochester Kent
Received 23 Dec 2008Land Adjoining 10 Wharf Lane Cliffe Rochester ME3 7UE
Received 15 Oct 2008185 Frindsbury Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4JN
Received 10 Dec 200869-71 City Way Rochester ME1 2BA
Received 17 Dec 2008Unit A Twydall Enterprise Centre 256 Lower Twydall Lane Gillingham ME8 6XX
Received 19 Aug 20082 Catterick Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8PX
Received 19 Dec 200858 Bournville Avenue Chatham ME4 6LR
Received 5 Dec 2008Hillview 243 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester ME2 3NW
Received 24 Nov 2008Records 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