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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
1,077 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Swallow Rise Walderslade Chatham ME5 7PR
Received 8 Oct 2008175 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QU
Received 14 Oct 2008191 Bush Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1HB
Received 18 Sept 2008125 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AT
Received 8 Oct 2008Garage Block Witham Way Strood Rochester Kent
Received 31 Jul 2008The Ship Inn 347 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1DA
Received 26 Sept 2008The Ship Inn 347 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1DA
Received 26 Sept 2008Unit 60/61 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent ME4 3ED
Received 6 Oct 20087 Horseshoe Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QU
Received 29 Sept 200821 Begonia Avenue Gillingham ME8 6YA
Received 7 Oct 20088 Cheriton Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0EU
Received 10 Oct 2008Coal Yard 8 Westcourt Street Brompton Gillingham ME7 5RD
Received 8 Sept 2008Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 (Northern Side Of Hoo Road) Wainscott Rochester Kent
Received 10 Oct 2008Rochester Waste Transfer Station Clipper Close Medway City Estate Rochester Kent ME2 4QP
Received 25 Sept 2008Buckhole Farm Road High Halstow Kent ME3 8SE
Received 18 Feb 200849 Hathaway Court Rochester Medway ME1 1QX
Received 3 Oct 2008Abbey Court Rainham Long Catlis Road Parkwood Gillingham Medway ME8 9TX
Received 2 Oct 2008258 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0PA
Received 9 Oct 200894 Sundridge Drive Walderslade Chatham ME5 8HY
Received 12 Sept 2008Tug & Shovel 65 North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SW
Received 14 Jul 200820 Old Road Chatham ME4 6BP
Received 7 Oct 2008Land Adjacent To 9 Wall Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9LN
Received 22 Aug 2008Matalan Store Strood Retail Park Commercial Road Strood Rochester
Received 20 Jun 2008110 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0LL
Received 1 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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