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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1,744 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1A And 1B Chaucer Road Gillingham ME7 5LY
Received 8 Apr 200961 Kingshill Drive Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JW
Received 15 Apr 200925 Coe's Green Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 8PY
Received 9 Apr 200916 Millcroft Road Cliffe Rochester ME3 7QN
Received 20 Apr 200925 Church Street Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9AH
Received 25 Mar 2009Land East Of Buckhole Farm Buckhole Farm Road High Halstow Rochester Kent
Received 9 Mar 2009270 Lonsdale Drive Rainham Gillingham ME8 9JT
Received 3 Apr 200946 Lamberhurst Green Gillingham ME8 6LE
Received 25 Mar 20098 Longley Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 7RT
Received 1 Apr 2009316 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5JP
Received 9 Apr 2009Sandybanks Perry Hill Cliffe Rochester ME3 7TY
Received 6 Apr 200914 Bolner Close Walderslade Chatham ME5 9PJ
Received 17 Mar 200912 Castle Avenue Rochester ME1 2DU
Received 14 Apr 2009Park Lodge 362 Canterbury Street Gillingham Medway ME7 5JU
Received 6 Apr 20094 Elms Accident And Repair Centre Main Road Chattenden Rochester Kent ME3 8LL
Received 7 Apr 200972 Hawthorne Avenue Rainham Gillingham ME8 6TS
Received 6 Apr 2009362 High Street Rochester ME1 1DJ
Received 26 Mar 2009Land To The West Of Eastern By-Pass A228/A289 [North Side Of Hoo Road] Wainscott Rochester Kent.
Received 6 Apr 2009Chapel Lane (Triangular Woodland) Hempstead Valley Drive Gillingham Kent ME7 3PA
Received 9 Apr 200914 Bluebell Close Gillingham ME7 2PZ
Received 2 Apr 2009Polendra Spekes Road Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3RS
Received 14 Apr 200916 Barleymow Close Chatham ME5 8JZ
Received 8 Apr 200991 Lamplighters Close Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3DX
Received 8 Apr 20095 Kingsnorth Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9JE
Received 8 Apr 2009Records 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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