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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Offord CP School, Off, High Street, St. Neots, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 8 Jun 1999Land North Of Ashwell And Morden Station, Station Road, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8
Received 17 Jun 1996Land North Of Cam Drive And South Of King Edgar Close, Ely, CB6 2WH
Received 25 Dec 2014Cambridge Professional Development Centre, Foster Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 9NL
Received 26 Nov 2019Sports & Leisure Centre, Camel Road, Littleport, Ely, CB6 1EW
Received 15 Aug 2017Not Known
Received 1 Apr 1974Peckover Primary School, Leverington Road, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 1PJ
Received 1 Jun 2010Buildings 110 & 118 Alconbury Airfield, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE28 4WX
Received 4 Dec 2012Burrough Green Endowed C Of E Primary School, Bradley Road, Burrough Green, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9NH
Received 15 Oct 1998Mitchell Hill Farm, Twentypence Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8PP
Received 23 Jan 2018Impington Village College, New Road, Impington, CB24 9LX
Received 30 Oct 2020Brunswick Nursery School, Young Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LZ
Received 17 Nov 1986Burnsfield Infs & King Edward Jun School, Burnsfield Estate, Chatteris, PE16
Received 19 Apr 1989Dry Drayton C Of E [Cont] School, Park Street
Received 17 Feb 1994Edinburgh House, Hooper Street, Cambridge
Received 3 Jul 1980Milton Landfill Site (II), Butt Lane, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 31 Jul 2000The Lots, Long Drove, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB4
Received 22 Feb 1999Swavesey C.P. School, Middlewatch
Received 6 Nov 1986Land North Of, Dimmock's Cote Road, Wicken, Ely, CB7
Received 19 Feb 2014Queens Court, Downing Close
Received 17 Oct 1986Land At, Second Drove, Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 11 May 2006Peckover Primary School, Leverington Road, Wisbech, PE131PJ
Received 9 Mar 1993Land At, Willingham Primary School, Thodays Close, Willingham, CB24
Received 22 Feb 2007Rackham Ce School, Main Street, Witchford, Ely, CB6 2HQ
Received 11 Jul 1977Records 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 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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