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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.
1,389 approved · 121 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
22 Parkside Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1JE
Received 18 Mar 202660-62 Rustat House Clifton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 7EG
Received 18 Mar 20267 Bulstrode Gardens Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0EN
Received 18 Mar 202660 Ditton Walk Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8QE
Received 18 Mar 20269, 11, 15 And 17 Ashfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Received 18 Mar 2026100 Huntingdon Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0HH
Received 18 Mar 202698 Riverside Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8HN
Received 19 Mar 2026Land In The North West Part Of The St Johns Innovation Park Cowley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 0WS
Received 19 Mar 202616 Acton Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3SD
Received 19 Mar 2026Newnham College, The Pightle Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9DF
Received 19 Mar 20269 Upper Gwydir Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2LR
Received 19 Mar 20263 Clare Road And Newnham College Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9HN
Received 19 Mar 202643 George Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1AL
Received 19 Mar 202635 Grange Road And 35B Grange Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9AU
Received 19 Mar 2026Cambridge Biomedical Campus Dame Mary Archer Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 0AJ
Received 17 Mar 202635 Coleridge Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3PH
Received 20 Mar 2026Morley House Harrison Drive Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8ED
Received 20 Mar 2026Cambridge Retail Park, Unit 5A Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8WR
Received 20 Mar 202612 Lynfield Lane Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1DR
Received 20 Mar 202613 Tenison Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2DX
Received 20 Mar 2026Land South Of Worts Causeway Cambridge CB1 8RL
Received 20 Mar 2026Land South Of Worts Causeway Cambridge CB1 8RL
Received 20 Mar 202646 De Freville Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1HT
Received 20 Mar 2026Girton Sidney Corpus And Wolfson Boathouse 1 Cutter Ferry Lane Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Received 20 Mar 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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