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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
1,744 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Medway Gate (Former Cuxton Pit No 3) Cuxton Road Strood Rochester Kent.
Received 16 Apr 20098 Knights Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9DW
Received 27 Mar 2009Co-Operative Retail Services Limited Maritime Way St. Marys Island Chatham Kent ME4 3ER
Received 3 Apr 200949 Gardiner Street Gillingham ME7 1DW
Received 21 Apr 200931 Elm Avenue Chattenden Rochester ME3 8LY
Received 14 Apr 200958 Norman Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0TQ
Received 30 Mar 200928 Carlton Avenue Gillingham ME7 2JU
Received 11 May 2009Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd Maritime Way St Marys Island Chatham Kent ME4 3ER
Received 27 Feb 2009Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd Maritime Way St Marys Island Chatham Kent ME4 3ER
Received 27 Feb 200975 Castlemaine Avenue Gillingham ME7 2QB
Received 28 Apr 20091 & 2 Harvest Cottages St Lawrence And Ruxley Court Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester ME3 0AL
Received 11 May 2009Burnt Oak PH 123 Gardiner Street Gillingham ME7 1DN
Received 30 Apr 2009Warren House Bush Road Cuxton Rochester Medway ME2 1HG
Received 5 May 200912 Foulds Close Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QF
Received 7 May 2009110 Bredhurst Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0QT
Received 20 Apr 200916 Albert Road Rochester ME1 3DG
Received 7 May 200944-46 Sturla Road Chatham ME4 5PA
Received 3 Apr 2009Rear Of 274-280 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4BP
Received 1 Apr 2009Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 3EL
Received 15 Apr 2009Land Adjoining 32 Banks Road Strood Rochester
Received 30 Mar 2009St Thomas More RC Primary School Bleakwood Road Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 0NF
Received 15 Apr 200969 Seaton Road Gillingham ME7 4BL
Received 21 Apr 2009Unit 63 Dockside Outlet Centre Maritime Way Chatham Maritime Chatham Kent
Received 24 Apr 2009Unit 4 24 High Street Gillingham ME7 1BB
Received 15 Apr 2009Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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