Understanding planning · 13 min read
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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Marshalls Mono Ltd, Meadow Lane, St. Ives, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE17
Received 9 Apr 1985Pendragon Community Primary School Varrier Jones Drive, Papworth Everard
Received 19 Mar 2007Wintringham Primary Academy, Nuffield Road, St Neots, PE19 0AW
Received 2 Dec 2019Bridgefoot Farm Quarry, Newmarket Road, Heydon, Nr Royston, SG8 7PN
Received 26 Jun 2015Grass Verge South Of Roundabout, Station Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Received 5 Dec 2018Land At Milton Landfill Site, Butt Lane, Milton, Cambridge, CB4
Received 24 Jun 1996Land At, Cottenham Primary School, Lambs Lane, Cottenham
Received 22 Nov 2006Northstowe New Town, Ne Longstanton
Received 29 Jul 2014Green Hedges School, Bar Lane, Stapleford, Cambridge, CB2 5BJ
Received 9 Aug 2000Land South East Of Shelford Farm, Shelfords Road, Willingham, Cambridgeshire
Received 16 Sept 2019Dove House Close
Received 19 Nov 1986Land Fronting Downing Court
Received 10 Nov 1989Houghton CP School, Chapel Lane, Houghton
Received 5 Mar 1999Land South Of Lancaster Way, Cambourne (Os Grid Ref: TL 327592)
Received 13 Apr 2006Clarkson Infants School, Trafford Road, Wisbech, PE13 2ES
Received 12 Feb 2014Northstowe Education Campus , Land Adjacent To Stirling Road, Northstowe New Town, Cambridgeshire, CB24 1BN
Received 17 Oct 2019Mepal Reservoir, Short North Fen Drove, Sutton, Cambridgeshire
Received 22 Jul 2019Bottisham Village College, Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB5 9DL
Received 20 Jan 19866 Carter Road, Burwell
Received 4 Jun 1979Cambridge Regional College, Young Street, Cambridge, CB1
Received 14 Jun 1990Land At, Elean Business Park, Sutton, Ely, CB6
Received 3 Feb 1992Adult Training Centre, Marwick Road, March, PE15
Received 10 Jul 1978Little Paxton Primary School, Gordon Road, Little Paxton, St. Neots, PE19 6NG
Received 3 Jul 2015Lodge Farm, Knights End Road, March, PE15 0YN
Received 16 Sept 2021Records 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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