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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1,337 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Tudor Rose 29 High Street Upnor Rochester ME2 4XG
Received 3 Dec 200824 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1HN
Received 31 Oct 2008115 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BS
Received 25 Nov 200812 Hurst Place Rainham Gillingham ME8 9AS
Received 5 Dec 200816 Highfield Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0EQ
Received 5 Nov 200812 Thames View Cliffe Rochester ME3 8LR
Received 10 Sept 2008Frankie And Bennys Medway Valley Leisure Park Chariot Way Strood Rochester ME2 2SS
Received 28 Nov 200834 Burma Way Chatham ME5 0JL
Received 29 Sept 20088 Hudson Close Rainham Gillingham ME8 0DE
Received 29 Oct 2008Outside 6 Military Road Chatham Kent ME4 4JA
Received 24 Nov 2008Outside 287-293 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4BP
Received 24 Nov 2008Outside 125 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4DH
Received 24 Nov 2008Outside 14 Railway Street Chatham Kent ME4 4JL
Received 24 Nov 2008Delta House St Margarets Mews Rochester ME1 1TJ
Received 19 Nov 2008Fersfield Balfour Road Chatham ME4 6QY
Received 21 Nov 200823 Mills Terrace Chatham ME4 5NZ
Received 27 Nov 2008National Grid Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AB
Received 21 Nov 2008Outside 249-251 High Street Chatham ME4 4JY
Received 24 Nov 2008Abbey Court School Rede Court Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3SP
Received 28 Nov 2008Outside Between 212-214 High Street Chatham ME4 4ES
Received 27 Nov 2008Outside Between 184-192 High Street Chatham ME4 4AX
Received 24 Nov 2008Wainscott Training Estate Comprising Land North Of Plant Branch Islingham Farm Road ME3 8BD
Received 1 Sept 2008Mid Kent College Horsted Centre Maidstone Road Chatham ME5 9UQ
Received 2 Sept 2008Medway Manor Hotel 14-17 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 23 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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