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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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Cambridgeshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Sept 1943 to 3 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Kings Dyke Works, Peterborough Rd. Whittlesey
Received 7 Jan 1982Cow Lane Sand And Gravel Pit (I), Cow Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 18 Jun 1965Land At Hearing Impaired Unit, Huntingdon Junior School, Ambury Road, Huntingdon, PE29 1AD
Received 30 Oct 2002The Netherhall School, Queen Ediths Way, Cambridge, CB1 8NN
Received 27 May 1987Land S And W Of 43 Walton Rd, Wisbech Town
Received 22 Nov 1988Land At, Pendragon Community Primary School, Varrier Jones Drive, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB3
Received 13 Jul 2005Sewage Treatment Works, B663, Bythorn
Received 28 May 1996Land Between North Angle And Swaffham Prior Energy Centre Including Compound At High Town Drove , Burwell , CB25 0BP
Received 3 Oct 2023Land At Former East Anglian Cement Quarry, Angle Lane, Shepreth, Royston, SG8
Received 13 Jan 1997Mick George Mitchell Hill , Long Drove, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, CB24 8RR
Received 18 Feb 2026Land Rear Of 22 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge
Received 25 Sept 1978Robert Arkenstall Primary School, Camping Close, Haddenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3UA
Received 25 Feb 2020Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant Relocation, Horningsea Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
Received 10 May 2025Huntingdonshire College, California Road
Received 14 May 1990Great Gidding C Of E Primary School, Main Street, Great Gidding, Huntingdon, PE175NX
Received 30 May 1977Yaxley Infants School, Main Street, Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7
Received 14 Oct 1977104 Cambridge Street, St. Neots
Received 4 Oct 1979Dry Drayton C.P. School, Park Street,Dry Draton
Received 15 Dec 1994Brampton County Infant And Junior Schools, The Green, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE188RF
Received 28 Jun 1988North Fen, Sutton Gault, The Gault, Sutton, Ely, CB6
Received 19 May 2003Junction Of Norwich Road And Stow Road
Received 21 May 1986Land At Bridge Farm, Holme Fen Drove, Colne, Cambridgeshire PE28 3RE
Received 26 May 2011Land Behind 254, Histon Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB4
Received 21 Jun 1990Land At Grafham Water Residential Centre, Ridgeway, Perry, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 7 Dec 2000Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Cambridgeshire County 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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