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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1,077 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Received 3 Oct 2008Top Flat 9 Camden Road Gillingham ME7 1QS
Received 8 Oct 200889 Jersey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3PD
Received 15 Sept 200826 Bluebell Close Gillingham ME7 2PZ
Received 8 Sept 200817 Brambletree Crescent Rochester ME1 3LG
Received 1 Oct 20082 Lullingstone Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3TS
Received 7 Oct 200866 Northumberland Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 7JY
Received 3 Oct 200829 Farm Hill Avenue Strood Rochester ME2 3RS
Received 22 Sept 200886 Darland Avenue Gillingham ME7 3AR
Received 8 Sept 2008235 Rushdean Road Strood Rochester ME2 2QB
Received 24 Sept 2008Land Rear Of 146 And 148 Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2SX
Received 22 Aug 2008155 Cliffe Road Strood Rochester ME2 3DW
Received 18 Sept 2008228 Beechings Way (Fronting Beechings Green) Gillingham Kent ME8 6ST
Received 3 Sept 200875-77 High Street Land To Rear Of 73 75-77 High Street Car Park To Rear Of 69-71 High Street And Access On Northgate Rochester Kent ME1 1LX
Received 6 May 2008Castle Club 3 The Esplanade Rochester ME1 1QE
Received 10 Jul 200815 Rochester Road Cuxton Rochester ME2 1AD
Received 7 Jul 200873 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 17 Jun 2008Lower Upnor Riverside Rochester Kent
Received 16 Jun 200839 Kit Hill Avenue Chatham Kent ME5 9EX
Received 6 Oct 200896 Borstal Road Rochester ME1 3BD
Received 24 Sept 200873 High Street Rochester ME1 1LX
Received 17 Jun 2008Buildings 1A And 1B To Rear Of 73 And 75-77 High Street Rochester Kent ME1 1LX
Received 17 Jun 2008294 Hempstead Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QH
Received 30 Sept 20081 Cobtree Close Chatham ME5 0AS
Received 28 Jul 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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