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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.
1,446 approved · 134 refused · 155 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2019 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Clare College, Old Court Trinity Lane Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1TL
Received 22 Jul 20264 Finch Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3RB
Received 22 Jul 202621 Chapman Court Sackville Close Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 2SG
Received 22 Jul 2026137 And 143 Histon Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3HZ
Received 22 Jul 20269 Adams Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9AD
Received 22 Jul 202654-62 Dukes Court Newmarket Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8DZ
Received 22 Jul 2026Burrells Field Trinity College Grange Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9DH
Received 22 Jul 2026Abbey College Homerton Gardens Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8EB
Received 23 Jul 2026The Vicarage 57 St Barnabas Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2BX
Received 23 Jul 20264 Clare Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9HN
Received 23 Jul 2026Cripps Court Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3AD
Received 23 Jul 2026Car Park Henley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Received 23 Jul 202647 Longworth Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1GU
Received 23 Jul 2026Cavendish Laboratory 19 J J Thomson Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0HE
Received 23 Jul 202624 Brooklands Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8BU
Received 23 Jul 202611A Grange Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9AS
Received 23 Jul 2026Cambridge Biomedical Campus Dame Mary Archer Way Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 0AJ
Received 23 Jul 2026School House, National Extension College Homerton Gardens Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 8EB
Received 23 Jul 202689 De Freville Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 1HP
Received 23 Jul 202627 Chesterton Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 3AL
Received 24 Jul 2026115 Wadloes Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB5 8PF
Received 24 Jul 202654 Devonshire Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 2BL
Received 24 Jul 202650-55 William James House Cowley Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4 0WX
Received 24 Jul 2026Bailey House Block 66-89 Rustat Avenue Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 3PG
Received 27 Jul 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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