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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6,198 approved · 193 refused · 387 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Extension At Coleridge Community College, Radegund Road, Cambridge, CB1
Received 27 Mar 2001Chatteris
Received 26 Mar 1980Gamlingay First School, Church Street, Gamlingay
Received 2 Apr 1980Whitemoor Sidings, Hundred Road, March, PE15 8QJ
Received 26 Mar 2014Stibbington Centre For Environmental Education, Great North Road, Stibbington, Peterborough, PE8
Received 29 Sept 1983Land At, Mayfield Primary School, Warwick Road, Cambridge, CB4
Received 18 May 2006Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant Relocation, Horningsea Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
Received 23 May 2025Land Between Coldham's Lane And River Cam, Through Coldham's Common, Barnwell Junction Pastures And Ditton Meadows Cambridge
Received 18 Aug 2016Unit 6, Saxon Way, Melbourn, Royston, SG8
Received 21 Feb 1994Norman Works, Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1
Received 6 Apr 1982Fulbourn C.P. School, School Lane
Received 9 Nov 1995Adjacent North Of Knobbs Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Fen Lane, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE17
Received 28 May 1996Barrington Quarry, Haslingfield Road, Barrington, Cambridgeshire, CB22 7RQ
Received 11 Jul 2015Roger Ascham Site, Ascham Road, Cambridge, CB4 2BD
Received 17 Jun 1991The Bellbird Primary School, Link Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3GB
Received 19 May 2018Land At, Woodhatch Farm, Thrapston Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 9 Aug 2002South West Of Galley Hill Sand And Gravel Pit, Potton Road, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, PE18
Received 5 Oct 1961Land At, Cleaning Materials & Equipment Store, Norwood Road, March, PE15
Received 5 Jan 2006West Of Boots Farm Sand And Gravel Pit, Manea Road, Wimblington, March, PE15
Received 1 Dec 1953Somersham CP School, Parkhall Road, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE173EU
Received 5 Dec 1977Ely County Infants School, High Barns, Ely, CB7 4RB
Received 14 Feb 1994Warboys Landfill Site, Puddock Hill, Warboys, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2TX
Received 18 Aug 2018Cheveley C.E. School, High Street/Park Road
Received 7 Jan 1997Cambridge Regional College, Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8EG
Received 2 Jul 1991Records 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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