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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Cambridge City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,366 approved · 120 refused · 148 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 Harvey Goodwin Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3EX
Received 20 Feb 20266 Journey Campus Castle Park Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0AT
Received 20 Feb 202623 - 27 Kings Hedges Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2QF
Received 20 Feb 20266 Friars Close Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 9JE
Received 23 Feb 202663 Cowper Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3SL
Received 23 Feb 202613 Sussex Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1PA
Received 23 Feb 202623 Wulfstan Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 8QL
Received 23 Feb 2026105 Victoria Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3BS
Received 23 Feb 202613 Sussex Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1PA
Received 23 Feb 2026Bentley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8AW
Received 23 Feb 202627 Beaumont Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 8PU
Received 23 Feb 202619 Shelford Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 9LZ
Received 23 Feb 202690 Garden Walk Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3EN
Received 23 Feb 202665 Eltisley Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9JQ
Received 23 Feb 2026106 York Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2PY
Received 23 Feb 2026Harfield House Hedgerley Close Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0EW
Received 23 Feb 202656 Storeys Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DX
Received 23 Feb 2026Plots 202 To 205 And 209 At BDW5&6 Land Between Huntingdon Road And Histon Road, Cambridge Known As Darwin Green One
Received 23 Feb 2026Plots 312 And 313 At BDW5&6 Land Between Huntingdon Road And Histon Road, Cambridge Known As Darwin Green One
Received 23 Feb 202627-28 Bridge Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1UJ
Received 23 Feb 202627-28 Bridge Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1UJ
Received 23 Feb 2026Wolfson College Barton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9BB
Received 18 Feb 202648 Pretoria Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1HE
Received 23 Feb 2026Land At 6-7, 8, 9-11, 13, 14-16 Mercers Row Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8HY
Received 23 Feb 2026Records 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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