Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Cambridge City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,286 approved · 117 refused · 144 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
41 Great Eastern Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3AB
Received 23 Oct 2025235 Hills Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8RW
Received 23 Oct 20258-12 Cambridge Leisure Park Clifton Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 7DY
Received 24 Oct 202515 Tillyard Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 8QT
Received 24 Oct 2025The Steel Building Kingfisher Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8BT
Received 24 Oct 202571 - 73 Bishops Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 9NQ
Received 24 Oct 2025264 Cherry Hinton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 7AU
Received 24 Oct 20254 Willis Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2AQ
Received 24 Oct 2025Fellows Garden Trinity College Queens Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Received 21 Oct 2025639 Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8WL
Received 24 Oct 202519 Clarendon Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8BH
Received 21 Oct 202519 - 35 Regent Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3AS
Received 24 Oct 2025Darwin Green One BDW3 Development Site Huntingdon Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Received 24 Oct 202517 Water Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1NZ
Received 24 Oct 202516 Sleaford Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2PW
Received 27 Oct 20259 Apthorpe Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2NJ
Received 27 Oct 202531 Argyle Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3LR
Received 27 Oct 2025Memorial Court Clare College Queens Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9AJ
Received 27 Oct 2025Cambridge Rugby Union Club Grantchester Road Newnham Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9ED
Received 27 Oct 20252 Rose Crescent Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3LL
Received 27 Oct 2025163 - 167 Mill Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3AN
Received 27 Oct 202546A Chartfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 9JY
Received 27 Oct 202538 Owlstone Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9JH
Received 27 Oct 202572A Ainsworth Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2PD
Received 27 Oct 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Cambridge City 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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